Comedy Writing Quotes

• Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing it out over time on stage and in front of people until it becomes a full bit.

  Marc Maron

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Badass, Self, White

  "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.

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

  Chris O'Dowd

  Writing, Comedy

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

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• 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

  Writing, Giving, Interesting

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• 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

  Writing, Mirrors, Black

  "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.

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

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Rocks, Gold

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

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Writing, Insane

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

  Charlie Brooker

  Writing, People, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Adventure, Levels

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

  Marc Maron

  Writing, Comedy, Moments

  "Marc Maron Off-Screen". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2015.

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• 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

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• 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

  Writing, Kids, Balls

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

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• 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

  Crazy, Reading, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Writing, Taught, Comedy

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