The main stuff I like is from the late '60s to the early '90s. That's the stuff I love. It's the James Cameron's and the Paul Verhoven stuff. I guess when I was younger, 'Star Wars' had an influence.
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.
You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.
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.
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
