Comedy Writing Quotes
Collection of 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
I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
— Sally Hawkins
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.
— Kathleen Hanna
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
When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.
— Joan Rivers
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
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
