It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.
Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.
Cursing dads are terrifying, you know? Cursing dads are - I don't know why, but no. It just doesn't seem to me that that would be funny. I mean it might be - you could try it and see. I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
It's one thing to be funny in a tweet. It is another to be funny for an hour.
I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
I genuinely like to make people laugh. It is one of the toughest things to do.
Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.
Sometimes you feel in control, and it's great, but sometimes you just don't feel in control and you really have to struggle to get laughs.
I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
Comedy is harder, because if there's no laughs, it's pretty bad. But drama, if there's no reaction, you can say, 'Well, it's not their cup of tea. Maybe it's too heavy for the audience.'
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
