Funny Quotes

• The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • People
  • Running
  • Comedy

• We certainly weren't the only show that managed to be funny and engaging and relatable but never talk down to the audience. There have only been a handful of those that I can think of that aren't super-cheesy or sappy or way too kid-friendly. 'Boy Meets World' was special in that way.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • World
  • Boy
  • Cheesy

• Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • People
  • Want
  • Serious

• Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Why
  • Look
  • Haircut

• It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • World
  • Lost
  • Personality

• The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Funny

• I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Information

• Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

  

  Katie Cassidy
  • People
  • Work
  • Cool

• I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Important
  • Childhood
  • Healing

• I've never tried fatback. Probably 'cause it's called fatback. I don't know which word creeps me out more: fat or back. Why don't they just throw in "hairy" while they're at it? "This is some delicious hairy fatback."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedy
  • Causes
  • Creeps

• It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Funny

• Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

  

  Charlie Korsmo
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • Job
  • Kids

• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Air
  • Saying

• It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Funny

• I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Weird

• I saw something in the store the other day that I don't understand: that peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. Is there a point to that? I mean, I'm lazy-but I wanna meet the guy who needs that. Some guy going, "You know, I could go for a sandwich-but, uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. Cleaning, who knows how many knives!?"

  

  Brian Regan
  • Guy
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • Funny
  • Style
  • Sad

• The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Art
  • Funny

• The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Best

• When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Time
  • Mind
  • She

• I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Funny

• I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be celebrating these moments at the Catdance Film Festival.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Funny
  • Moments
  • Honored

• It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.

  

  Fleur East
  • Different
  • Day
  • Perception

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