Johnny Flynn Quotes

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

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

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

There is a universality to comedy.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.