“Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.”
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“What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.”
“I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.”
“Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.”
“People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.”
“If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.”
“For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.”
“I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.”
“I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.”
“I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.”
“When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.”
“Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.”
“There's always something funny about men chasing women.”
“I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.”
“As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.”
“I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.”
“To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.”
“I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.”
“As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.”
“Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.”
“Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.”
“We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.”
“You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.”
“The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.”