“I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.”
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“I don't just try to be funny.”
“It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.”
“It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.”
“You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.”
“I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.”
“For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.”
“Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.”
“I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.”
“A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.”
“I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.”
“Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.”
“That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.”
“Funny is funny.”
“Memories are doing funny things to us.”
“Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.”
“So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.”
“People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'”
“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.”
“Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.”
“The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.”
“'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.”
“My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.”
“I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.”