Jimmy O. Yang Quotes

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

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

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.'

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

Most of what I write is comedy.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

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.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

There is a universality to comedy.

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.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

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

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

I see parody as another form of comedy.

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

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

I'm like a sight gag.

Gags die, humor doesn't.