Lil Rel Howery Quotes

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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

Obviously comedic styles do change.

Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

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

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

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

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's 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.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

There's always a message in my comedy.

There is a universality to comedy.

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.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

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

People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.