Lennon Parham Quotes

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

For comedy, timing is key.

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

I told jokes badly.

I'm not a good joke teller.

Comedy is all about the pause.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test.

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

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.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

I tell the most horrible jokes.

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.