I've always found it easy to write comedy in the area where people have strong emotions. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
What you don't think when you sit down to write a show is, 'How can I be shocking?' That question isn't interesting,… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Getting under the surface of real-life humans' poker faces humans is hard in a sitcom, even a drama. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I wouldn't defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Comedy is not good for anything, really. Apart from being one of the only things that makes life worth living. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's a lucky kink for comedy writers that particular English obsession and interest with class and social difference. It maybe is not… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Standups always like the room cold, and if you're shooting a sitcom live you want it a little bit chilly for the… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Catch-22' is the big daddy of funny war novels. It's capacious and occasionally rambling. It's a bible of literate comedy: you can… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
The camera reacts with the speed of a human being rather than somebody who knows what's going to happen next. And that… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
You've got to trust the audience, and hopefully if you do interesting work you'll get an audience that are interested and engaged. But if… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
Because Oswestry is very much an Anglo-Welsh mix it can lead you to feeling a bit bipolar sometimes. I mean, you're in England but… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
There are lots of great characters in fiction who viewers and readers have engaged with that behave badly. Great characters can be unfaithful. They… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
The writers' room is an open forum where anything mad or weird that aggressively shakes up the show can be suggested and considered. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
I do think it's really tough being super-rich, really hard-working and wanting to get some sort of immortality by passing on the organisation to… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
Most of us now have opinions on such things as road tolling, the U.S. position on climate change, and the correct colour of a… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
Unlike many hour-long scripted American dramas, 'Succession' has very few standing sets. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
As a private individual, it's probably not worth having a foreign policy of your own at all. Not unless you own at least a… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
Why do I bother having all my stupid opinions? I mean, really, my ever evolving Balkan policy of the mid-1990s - what did I… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
There's an underlying sense that your family should accord you a greater level of safety in your interactions with them. When that's violated, it's… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share
