“Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.” ArtDiesKeysEssentialsCreatingJokesTimingGreat Art Author:Travis Nichols
“Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, andwhat circumstances would be drastic enough for presenting the voucher. Obviously there is no repayment that would be sufficient . . . but the effort to call in the debt of life is too outrageous to be treated as anything other than a joke.” YearsEnoughWould BeLife IsParentEffortCircumstancesCreatingJokesDebtTreatedSufficientVaryOutrageousSuitablePresentingSustainingDrasticVouchersRepayment Author:Frank Pittman
“I try my jokes onstage. The only way to really find out if something is going to work is to try it on stage, and I try to be careful and bookend something new with a strong bit before and a strong bit afterwards. But it's fun to run on virgin snow. I like that feeling onstage of creating new footprints and not knowing what's going to happen.” IfsWayTryingFeelingsHappensRunningStrongFunBitsKnowingStageCreatingJokesCarefulSnowSomething NewBe CarefulNot KnowingVirginsGoing To WorkFootprintBookends Author:Brian Regan
“I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result.” FoundResultsComedyStupidCreatingJokesPremisesRealisedStupid Jokes Author:Mel Brooks
“Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.” PeopleShowsTogetherInterestHoursTelevisionFineCreatingJokesSittingSpendingStringsTapeHobbiesTelevision ShowsSitting AroundBangingFunny People Author:Jon Stewart
“Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.” IdeasCreatingJokesMusicalTraditionalVisuals Author:Reggie Watts
“When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.” RememberCreatingJokesRealisedBeing Funny Author:Paul Merton
“People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingMayStoriesImaginationCreatingJokesIllusionConnectedSomething NewMy ImaginationTelling StoriesTrying SomethingTrying Something New Author:Steven Wright