I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.
I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
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.
There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
I like guys who are honest and funny. Looks come and go; I want to be 65 years old and laughing with my husband.
I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.
I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.
In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.
It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
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 when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
You know, in high school I thought Catholicism was funny and sort of ridiculous, but then I also liked it, too. Like, I definitely turned to it in times of trouble.
I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.
I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.
