“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”
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“Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.”
“The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.”
“I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.”
“When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.”
“Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.”
“Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.”
“I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.”
“I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.”
“I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.”
“Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.”
“I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.”
“It's funny to be a critic.”
“Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.”
“We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!”
“You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.”
“I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.”
“Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.”
“'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.”
“The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.”
“Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?”
“Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.”
“The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.”
“I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.”