Hasan Minhaj Quotes

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. 'The Other Guys' was not lazy.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

I'm not the comic innovator that Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy are. I can't just come out with an incredible line.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

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

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Comedy is second nature for me.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

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.

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.