How To Write Comedy Quotes

“Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself – it’s the occurring which is difficult. Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist”
― Tony Kirwood, How To Write Comedy: Discover the building blocks of sketches, jokes and sitcoms – and make them work

“I moaned to my wife I couldn’t get served on the train. She said, “When in Rome.” I tried, but the buffet attendant didn’t speak Latin.”
― Tony Kirwood, How To Write Comedy: Discover the building blocks of sketches, jokes and sitcoms – and make them work

“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel Prizes”
― Tony Kirwood, How To Write Comedy: Discover the building blocks of sketches, jokes and sitcoms – and make them work

“Jimmy Carr, no stranger to giving perceived offence, sets out a good rule: if you have to look over your shoulder, don’t tell the joke.”
― Tony Kirwood, How To Write Comedy: Discover the building blocks of sketches, jokes and sitcoms – and make them work

“The first recorded joke was written down in Ancient Sumeria in about 1800 BC. It went something like this: ‘Something which has not occurred since time immemorial: that a young woman did not fart till her husband’s embrace.”
― Tony Kirwood, How To Write Comedy: Discover the building blocks of sketches, jokes and sitcoms – and make them work