Comedy Quote by Thomas Lennon

I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both…

— Thomas Lennon

We never intended to be comedic directors; it was just something we fell into.

— Joe Russo

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy…

— Todd Phillips

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

— Jon Hurwitz

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

— Matt Stone

Directors were apprehensive in trying comedy with me.

— Kunal Khemu

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

— Ali Fazal

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to…

— Burt Ward

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then…

— Michael Caine

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

— Sharon Horgan

Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone.

— Craig Mazin

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he…

— Peter Dinklage