People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.
I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.
To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
Evelle: Do they blow up in funny shapes? Grocer: Nope. Unless round's funny.
Sport: You're a funny guy - but looks aren't everything.
It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control....
New Rule: America has every right ot bitch about gas prices suddenly shooting up. How could we have known? Oh, wait, there was that teensy, tiny thing about being warned constantly over the last forty years but still creating more urban sprawl, faili...
Martha: What did you just say? Troy: I said the Valium you gave to Simon wasn't actually Valium. It's an hallucinogenic concoction. You know, stuff like acid, mescaline, a little ketamine. Martha: This isn't funny, Troy. Troy: I'm not being funny. Lo...
The funny thing about life is, there's nothing better to do than live it.
I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.
I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.
I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.
No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years.
I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.
Youa: You're funny. Walt Kowalski: I've been called a lot of things, but never funny.
Max Fischer: War does funny things to men.
I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're...
MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.
