Brad Rutter Quotes

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

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.

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

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.

The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.

I find writing is the most fun I have in comedy.

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

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

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.

I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.'

I was not a successful TV comedy writer.

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

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.

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.

After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

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

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

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