Around Quote by Will Arnett

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

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my…

— Kurt Vonnegut

At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions…

— Steve Martin

I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive…

— Gabriel Iglesias

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

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

— Seth MacFarlane

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

— Jermaine Fowler

I've always found it easy to write comedy in the area where people have strong emotions.

— Jesse Armstrong

We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there's really…

— Noah Hawley

Comedy, surprisingly for a form that intends to bring joy and joviality, is always upsetting people. Jokes rely on broad strokes, stereotypes, caricatures, exaggerations…

— Sara Pascoe

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

— Robert Webb

“Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes call “exformation,” which is a certain quantity…

— David Foster Wallace