Colin Jost Quotes

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I've always loved doing comedy.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

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

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

My instincts are not comedic.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

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

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

My friends say I make them laugh a lot, so I think that somewhere in me is a little comedic ability that comes out in the most inappropriate or unexpected moments. I did a lot of sketch comedy years ago. That's always in me.

I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.