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.
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.
For most of the things children do, parents are responsible. A good seed, noble thoughts and upbringing deeds can determine the character and personality feeds of our children. The amount of money we spend on them is not funny, to please them that's ...
It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.
Funny thing, how much weaker boys are than girls.
I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
We don't avoid the word... just the action.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
I always think any circumstances can be funny. Not that I'm irresponsible, but when things go wrong, I always come up with a joke or think of something funny to say.
I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.
