Jonathan Levine Quotes

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

The more real it is, the funnier it is. The more awkward it is, the more people are stumbly, the funnier it is. I like a sharp joke, but it has to say something that someone would actually say.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

I never think I want to try to be funny. And humor, if there is anything funny, should come from a real place.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

That's the thing, you see, we were never good enough to write proper punchlines.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.