Balance Quote by Josh Widdicombe

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

— Alexei Sayle

It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done…

— Robert Orben

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

— Michael Hirst

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

— Miranda Hart

I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick.…

— David Thewlis

Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.

— Valerie Faris

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a…

— Jack Lemmon

So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on…

— Betty White

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then…

— Michael Caine

What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on…

— David Morse

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

— Lea Thompson

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but…

— Whit Stillman