Comedy Quote by Eric Morecambe

We did have a script, but it didn't consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just a plan…

— Stan Laurel

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

— Jon Hurwitz

John Sullivan's scripts were always very funny, and cast and crew got on well.

— David Jason

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy…

— Todd Phillips

We've talked about a sitcom and a comedy drama. It's getting the right project and working with the right people.

— Declan Donnelly

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

— Ronny Chieng

I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're…

— Thomas Lennon

I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there's always that fun balance of,…

— Hayden Panettiere

The majority of scripts I get are in the comedy genre.

— Varun Sharma

The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as…

— Eric McCormack

I would like to direct a sitcom like 'Sumit Sambhal Lega.' It was interesting. It had a great script also.

— Satish Kaushik