Peter Serafinowicz Quotes

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

Once I started getting serious about standup I got a better handle on word economy and making jokes punchier, which translated well to Twitter.

I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

Twitter is a good medium to lean how to write jokes. It pushes you to write a better joke in that, on Twitter, the first joke about something has already happened. You need to think of the second joke and the third joke.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

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

I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

It's very hard to write humor.

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

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

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

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 also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.