You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.
A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.
Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.
Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.
Samantha: Is that weird? You think I'm weird? Theodore: Kind of. Samantha: Why? Theodore: Well, you seem like a person but you're just a voice in a computer. Samantha: I can understand how the limited perspective of an unartificial mind might perceiv...
If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.
I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.
A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.
And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.
My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.
I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.
What they do in America in all those sitcoms is hire glamorous girls and they're never that funny... that's because they've never had to develop a personality because they're hot.
