I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.
In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be 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.
Jeannine: Conrad, I'm not a very good bowler, what I mean is, I'm a funny bowler. Conrad "Con" Jarrett: Oh, well we don't have to go bowling if you'd rather not. How funny are ya? Jeannine: On a scale of one to ten... about a ten. Conrad "Con" Jarret...
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.
I'll fail." "At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.
The easiest way to make money is to be funny. The easiest way to be regarded as funny is to have money.
My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.
A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.
Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.
I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.
A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.
I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.
The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.
When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.
The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.
