David Cross Quotes

I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

I'm very interested in any script that makes me laugh.

I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.

I listen to a lot of standup comics.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff.

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.

Sometimes my humor does offend people, and I've said it before: I don't write jokes to be offensive. I write jokes to be funny, and I guess what I find funny are things that other people sometimes find offensive. I would love nothing more than to never offend anyone, but it just doesn't seem to work out that way.

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

There's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.

I think the second you think that you're funny is when you stop being funny.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.