Comedy Writing Quotes:

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

- Chris O'Dowd

topic: Writing, Comedy Writing, Comedy

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?

- Mindy Kaling

source: "The New New Girl: Mindy Kaling Promotes Herself Out of The Office and Into The Mindy Project". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. September 9, 2012.

topic: Badass, Comedy Writing, Self, Female Comedian

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

- Marc Maron

topic: Writing, Comedy, Moments, Comedy Writing

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.

- David Ives

topic: Writing, Giving, Interesting, Couplets, Amenable

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.

- Charlie Brooker

source: "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

topic: Writing, Mirrors, Black, Comedy Writing

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

- Dan Harmon

source: "Community creator Dan Harmon". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 23, 2010.

topic: Writing, Rocks, Gold, Gold Standard, Comedy Writing

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

topic: Falling In Love, Writing, Insane, Writing Comedy, Comedy Writing

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

- Charlie Brooker

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Writing, People, Might, Comedy Writing

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

- Steve Martin

topic: Writing, Adventure, Levels, Musings, Comedy Writing

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

- Paul Kane

topic: Love, Happiness, Smile, Make Someone Laugh, Special Things

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.

- Jonathan Winters

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Writing, Kids, Balls, Comedy Writing

The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that are, that kind of you know like Seinfeld and The Simpsons and a lot of shows kind of had a lot of kind of Lampoon writers and so that was very formative. I mean, to me I got interested in comedy writing at an early like reading like Dave Barry.

- Nicholas Stoller

topic: Crazy, Reading, Writing, Comedy Writing

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,

- Woody Allen

topic: Writing, Taught, Comedy, Comedy Writing