Nicholas Stoller Quotes

I think if you have a funny thought, and you want to get off a funny point, try to do it as realistically as you can. If you try to act it funny and accent the funny points, or do it in a funny style, you kind of lose it.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

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

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

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.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

I never think I want to try to be funny. And humor, if there is anything funny, should come from a real place.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

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

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

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.