Comedy Quote by Nicholas Stoller

Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

— Juvenal

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

— Michael Hirst

I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of…

— Kevin Keck

I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel…

— Nicholas Stoller

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

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon'…

— Lina Wertmuller

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

— Rashida Jones

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

— Ronny Chieng

When I first started, stand-up comedians writing novels was thought of as a great encroachment on the art form and people got very angsty.…

— David Baddiel

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry,…

— Pierce Brosnan

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