Quotes About Humor

I always sit in the back of a plane. It's much safer. You never hear of a plane backing into a mountain!

I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.

When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.

I do feel that there is a little confusion in people's minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased that people identify with the character, but I think they want me to be her and are disappointed that the real Miranda doesn't actually fall into graves or be that rubbish at life.

I'm not of the ilk that there's something immoral about doing an unfunny sitcom - it just gets boring and unchallenging.

I'm a huge fan of stuff like 'Planet Earth' and the American sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'

Everyone told me that British sitcom was dead. Then I looked at 'Seinfeld' and 'Frasier' and thought, 'No it's not, it just needs more gags.'

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best.

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.

I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are.

I'm a sitcom junky. And I love rom coms. Mind candy.

I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.

Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

I did a sitcom, and I really enjoyed looking for different ways to be funny - lifting that off of the page and just really expanding on it in a way that with procedural and drama, you can't do as much.

I've seen episodes of 'Friends' which are as funny as any sitcom I've ever seen.

I've always had a good imagination. If I saw a sitcom, and everything was made out of cheese, I wouldn't go 'What?' I wouldn't get angry. I'd think, 'Right, OK, all cheese? Amazing.'

Not Going Out' is a pretty neutral sitcom - to quote the 'Seinfeld' thing, it's not really about anything.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

I'm not really that political and I love the idea of a sitcom. But a lot of people want me to become the next Jon Stewart.

The charming sitcom is all very well, but good comedy is based on pain and danger and fear.