Michelle Wolf Quotes

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at 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.

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

I always think about my jokes as like I'm driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the way. I'm just taking a thoughtful, weird journey.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

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

It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.

Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.