Ron Shock Quotes

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

Stand-up is very broad strokes, kind of a skeleton of a story or something.

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

'The State' had never done improv. We used to go over scripts for weeks and argue about every joke. But I don't know how we would have scripted 'Reno.'

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

I always think about my jokes as like I'm driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the way. I'm just taking a thoughtful, weird journey.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.