Character Quote by Cole Escola

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

— Seth MacFarlane

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect…

— Christopher Guest

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

— Michael Schur

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

— Jonathan Winters

I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive…

— Gabriel Iglesias

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you…

— Larry David

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not…

— Stephen Colbert

If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their…

— Anne Beatts

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

— Jonathan Raban

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

— Aziz Ansari

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

— Lucille Ball

Russell Crowe likes to tell jokes, which I can't. I can't remember a joke to save my life. I don't have a brain for…

— Rachel McAdams