Steven Bochco Quotes

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

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

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

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

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.

I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.

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

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.