Funny Quotes
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It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.
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I had to develop a sense of humor I'm sure it's a defense mechanism. It was, 'Before they make fun of me, I'll make a joke.' Being funny is just a point of view about life in general. Sometimes it's born out of difficult childhoods, where you have to develop a sense of humor. Ultimately, it's a gift.
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The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
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I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.
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In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
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Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.
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I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.
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I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.
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Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
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It's funny, because athletes want to be rockers and vice versa.
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It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.
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I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.
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'Blithe Spirit' is played almost all over Britain somewhere at all times because it is such a unique and ridiculously funny show. But it's also, in fact, under those layers of humor, a very serious show. It's quite misogynistic.
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As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.
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It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.
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I could never really choose a favorite book, but whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, I always say 'Withnail & I,' a British film from 1987. It's funny and sad and absolutely gorgeous to look at. It's the film I can watch over and over again.
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When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.
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I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.
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People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
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What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.
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Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
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By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.
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It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.
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How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.
