Benjamin Stockham Quotes

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

There's an art to comedy.

Comedy is all about the pause.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

To me, comedy is a game.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

There's depth in my comedy.

Nothing can help my comedy.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.