Jaboukie Young-White Quotes

I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

I don't write punch lines.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

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

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

On Twitter, people just want to hear a joke. They don't really want to know about your life.

Melissa and I both say we don't write very good jokes.

One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.

Tina Fey is a genius - I've seen it with my own eyes now. She's a very observant person, and I've never seen somebody write such a high volume or as quickly as she does.

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

Writing comedy is a superpower.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

Let's just let funny people be funny.

I'm a sarcastic, observational storyteller.