Charles M. Schulz Quotes

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.

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

If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid.

There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get.

I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.

I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely had dark moments, but people tended to think he was funny even if the character himself wasn't having a fun time.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that you can see on the page, and no matter who's saying it, it is, in and of itself, a funny line.