All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
— E. B. White
Tremendous Comedy Writing quotations
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.
Welcome to my world! I've been through it all, and I often pinch myself to believe my luck. I design jewlery, create cosmetics, perform comedy, act, lecture, write books, travel, have a fabulous daughter, and a phenomenal grandson-and I feel I'm the luckiest woman on the planet.
I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.
BoJack especially is a very dialogue based show.
A lot of the comedy comes from conversations, and a lot of story comes from misunderstandings and people trying to connect with each other, and there was a really interesting challenge trying to write a script with no dialogue.
Eventually, this is how I would like to be remembered at the end of my career: He was never the best in anything he did - comedy, acting, filmmaking, writing, etc. But nobody was better at doing different things at the same time than he was.
I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage.
I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.
I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing SCREAM QUEENS. We hope to create a whole new genre - comedy-horror - and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads.
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.
There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul.
If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy.
The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
I believe there are two ways of writing novels.
One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
I think all Internet comments should be disengaged.
But I kind of live and die by it. It's completely irresistible. It's not like comedy. When I do a podcast or write an episode of TV, I have no feedback for that. That's the only way you know what you're doing is good or bad.
In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School.
It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from Danny Simon.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.