Wendy Cope Quotes

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I've bought something.

Not being happy really is my fear.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing?

I did a web series years ago where I helped write a kind of a spoof called 'Young Love.'

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.

I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise it would be quite cynical.

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.

Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.

Frank Sebastiano is a real write. He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Chris Rock Show' . The only award I have is an FM-mmy.

I feel like everything I do makes people feel really uncomfortable.