Bill Bryson Quotes

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.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

It's very hard to write humor.

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.'

There is a universality to comedy.

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

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

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

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

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.

I don't write punch lines.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Everybody loves good humour and in movies, we are in search of things that make viewers laugh.

I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.

Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

It's really challenging to play 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.

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.

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

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

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.