Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
Copy Quote View & ShareAmerica to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
Copy Quote View & ShareWith reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
Copy Quote View & ShareWriting humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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