Cyrus Broacha Quotes

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

It's very hard to write humor.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.