Andrea Seigel Quotes

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

I don't write punch lines.

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

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

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

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

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

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.

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

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.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

There's always a message in my 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.

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

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

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

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

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

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.