David Cross Quotes

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.

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

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

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.

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.

There's always a message in my comedy.

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 can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

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.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

It's very hard to write humor.