Betrayal Quote by Terry Pratchett

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

— Alice Childress

My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You…

— Walter Hill

The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to…

— Colm Toibin

So when you tell a joke, you want to make someone laugh, or if you tell a story about someone who had a heart…

— Peter Guber

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

— Edmond Rostand

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

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative;…

— Robert Orben

There are a lot of veterans out there who would not think their wounds would be the source of poor jokes in bad taste…

— Dan Crenshaw

What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going…

— Paul Feig

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people…

— Patrick Rothfuss