Comedy Scripts Quotes

Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of puppets. There's a big puppet musical at the end of 'Sarah Marshall.' I wrote 'The Muppets.'

It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

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

I could never sit down and write jokes.

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things. I'm looking for something a bit tougher, more muscle mass, something small, but the thing is, I get all the best comedy scripts, I don't get all the best drama scripts. So I'll just go with what's the best script.

I have, for a few years, been writing comedy prose - short pieces for my blog - because I found it to be a good way to write while I was on a TV show. It was different enough from my scripts that it felt like a break, but it still was comedy and very fun. I like to do comedy!

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

I've never sat down and written jokes. I wouldn't know how to.

The majority of scripts I get are in the comedy genre.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.

As an actor, I would love to do an out and out comedy.

Comedy really is my bread and butter, even when I'm doing a serious character, with the exception of Outcast. I have found very little humor in this character. Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.

I hadn't done comedy before 'Fresh Meat' - I hadn't really been seen that way, and then 'Fresh Meat' came out, and suddenly a lot more comedy scripts were coming my way, which was really great.

I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So any time I get a chance to do a little comedy, that's also a nice change for me. Most of the time people think of me as a dramatic actress and singer. And there's a challenge there because comedy is hard. What do they say? "Dying is easy; comedy is hard."

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for hire.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.