Exposed Quote by Robert Mankoff

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't…

— Walton Goggins

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke…

— Bob Newhart

“Once you even acknowledge that there is a line, that there are things you shouldn’t be allowed to joke about, that there are words…

— Al Franken

In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in…

— Steve Allen

What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from…

— Woody Allen

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to…

— Marilyn Manson

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to…

— Marilyn Manson

I've always been attracted to comedy that was really close to the line and made people a little uncomfortable, because that's where progress comes…

— Katherine Ryan

I had a show that people thought used a laugh track. It wasn't; it was the real audience going crazy after everything that resembled…

— Norm MacDonald

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

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

— Lea Thompson

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke."…

— Tim Heidecker