"If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what’s funny in the joke." ― Richard Russo Topic(s): Funny More From Richard Russo "Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me." "I don’t think there’s a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I’ve got other stories to tell." "If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don’t mean to." More In Funny "Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."― Tom Peters "I’ve never really understood that. It’s a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable."― Joel Coen "‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director – who were just fun."― Steve Martin