Lauren Miller Quotes

Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!

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.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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.

The first thing you start with when you're trying to write something funny is it has to - it really has to come to you first. I has to be an idea that you have that first makes you laugh, that strikes you as funny.

Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

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

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I wanted to be a comedian.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

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

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

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

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.

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

I'd like to do a bit of comedy.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.