“I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.” PeopleYearsIdeasThreeRoomsFourJokesWittyNo IdeaLaughedFour Years Author:Rebecca De Mornay
“Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.” PeopleWantFeelsShouldNaturalLevelsLaughingJokesMaking People Laugh Author:Patrice O'Neal
“Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.” PeopleThinkingRoomsLaughingComedyJokesSittingResponseZoneTwilightSubjectiveVisceralPersonal ThingsTwilight Zone Author:Todd Phillips
“If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.” PeopleIfsShouldHardDoubtCoupleJokesNegativeLaysPatientHard TimesBe PatientRadarHaving A Hard Time Author:Michael J. Fox
“Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.” PeopleWritingDifferentCharacterProcessVoiceRoomsNovelTvsJokesTranslate Author:Jennifer Weiner
“And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.” PeopleLaughingWrittenJokesDirtyThrill Author:Laura Wade
“My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me.” PeopleLooksTypeJokesSuitsParisAestheticNot InterestedBowieBalconies Author:Jen Kirkman