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The secret to humor is surprise.

You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, 'What the Hell was that.' As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.