Come Quote by Paul F. Tompkins

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

— Armando Iannucci

That's hard to write something that makes you laugh out loud.

— Janelle James

I don't write jokes first. I write down topics. I think of what I want to talk about, and then I write the jokes…

— Chris Rock

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing,…

— William Zinsser

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other…

— Mo Rocca

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the…

— Constance Wu

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the…

— Ian Frazier

You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you…

— Michael Showalter

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the…

— David Cross

I want to make people laugh first, and that's it.

— Sean Hayes

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

— Aaron Belz

The first condition for comedy is that if you laugh at your own jokes, others won't laugh. You have to say something funny very…

— Saswata Chatterjee