Quote by David Mitchell
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that its not jokes tha

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that its not jokes that are funny, its characters that are funny. And isnt that true! Thats why I always kill jokes. Im terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I cant get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon. – David Mitchell

Other quotes by David Mitchell

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. – David Mitchell

Category:
Death
Read Quote

Ive become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. – David Mitchell

Category:
dad
Read Quote

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. – David Mitchell

Category:
Experience
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
funny
category

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. Im not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And Im certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. – Rowan Atkinson

Category:
funny

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of ones friends and relatives children. – P. J. ORourke

Category:
funny

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy. – Steve Coogan

Category:
funny

Im smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation. – Megan Fox

Category:
funny

Random Quotes

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. – Jesus Christ

Category:
alone

Every artist writes his own autobiography. – Havelock Ellis

Category:
Art

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires. – Muqtada al Sadr

Category:
Government

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. – Henry A. Kissinger

Category:
Leadership