Between Quote by Stephen Colbert

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out…

— Aziz Ansari

There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it…

— Moshe Kasher

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

— Seth MacFarlane

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect…

— Christopher Guest

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while…

— Jeff Kinney

Creating jokes, sometimes it's the experience of life and it's also practice and most of the time writers' help me.

— Sunil Grover

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

With comedy, don't try to be funny. That's really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters,…

— Ariel Winter

I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to…

— Chris Rock

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

— Michael Schur

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

— Michael McIntyre

Sitcom writing is difficult because it's not just about writing jokes - there's a very fine balance between characters, plot, and comedy, that if…

— Josh Widdicombe