Terence Young Quotes

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

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

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.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

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.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.