Humor Creation Quotes

I'm not making comedy albums. That's too much effort for one joke.

The first thing you start with when you're trying to write something funny is it has to - it really has to come to you first. I has to be an idea that you have that first makes you laugh, that strikes you as funny.

I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

Everything I experience in life, I put through the sausage-maker that is comedy, and then try to make it funny for others. Whether that is healthy or not remains to be seen.

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.

Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don't mind laughing at it before you guys do.

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

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

If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.

I've never been able to write for stand-up.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

I write these shows one joke at a time. There's no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there's not continuity.

I want to stay proactive and keep having funny material online.

The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project.

Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes.

Оf course you can only write comedy when you're smoking weed.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

I come up with my jokes by thinking of a topic.

Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!