Comedy Writing Quotes: top 57 famous quotes about Comedy Writing

Comedy Writing Quotes & Sayings

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I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone. — Steven Moffat

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say. — Anthony Jeselnik

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire. — Stephen Gaghan

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting. — Simon Bird

My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done. — Woody Allen

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy. — Sally Hawkins

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing. — Louis C.K.

I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them. — Maria Semple

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love. — Pearl Cleage

I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out . — Joan Rivers

Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion. — Joan Rivers

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. — Ann Brashares

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is. — Michael Hirst

Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust. — Joan Rivers

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it. — Joan Rivers

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody. — Brendan O'Carroll

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.' — Marlon Wayans

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing. — Dan Harmon

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. — Jason Segel

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it. — Margaret Cho

Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing. — Steve Martin

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing. — Anthony Jeselnik

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes. — Lake Bell

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social? — Michelle M. Pillow

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that. — Sharon Horgan

It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it. — Jim Jefferies

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue. — Jim Parsons

With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down. — Jay Harrington

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there. — Bill Cosby

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios. — Robert Benchley

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy. — Ba Jin

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh. — Lauren Miller

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins. — Paula McLain

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny. — Simon Rich

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime. — Adriana Trigiani

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy. — Colm Meaney

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff. — David Chase

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. — Chris O'Dowd

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap. — Kathleen Hanna

To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world. — Julia Quinn

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff. — Jane Espenson

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. — Michael Caine

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good. — Wendy Liebman

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it. — Robert Orben

When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you. — Joan Rivers

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc. — Warren Ellis

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs. — Joshua Mohr

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing. — Kristin Gore

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries. — Charles S. Dutton

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. — Bill Hicks

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy. — Rick Moody

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter. — Aaron Belz

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again. — Michelle M. Pillow

I had a blind date with a dentist - and he told me to come back in six months. — Joan Rivers

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. — Marc Maron

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. — F Scott Fitzgerald