Well, life is dark, isn’t it? Mostly, it’s dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it. – Upamanyu Chatterjee
I’m not a big prank guy, because I don’t like them done to me. I’ve been on movies sets where one guys goes into his trailer, and then people move the stairs, and he comes out of his trailer, and there’s no stairs. That’s not funny! I don’t want to be that guy! – Terry Crews
People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they’re totally different – you can’t necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you’re live in a theater. You don’t have the tools yet. It’s a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny. – Wanda Sykes
I don’t have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place. – Vera Farmiga
Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won’t. – Stephen Mangan
What I like about the jokes, to me it’s a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won’t be funny. – Steven Wright
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny. – Umberto Eco
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they’re about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself. – Zadie Smith
At the end of the day I’m writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny. – Simon Rich
I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful. – Taylor Swift
Ladies are honest. They’re my motivation. They know what’s funny, and the dudes just follow. – Tracy Morgan
I think I would say ‘The King’s Speech’ is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there’s more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. – Tom Hooper
From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over. – Zooey Deschanel
I think if you’re trying to be funny, sometimes you’re bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn’t want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself. – Tamsin Greig
If there’s ever a woman who’s smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don’t write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them. – Teri Garr
It’s funny because I think a lot of it is simply… We’ve never considered ourselves satirists, but because we’re on Comedy Central and because we’re South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want. – Trey Parker
Optimism isn’t funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It’s exaggeration. – Steve Toltz
One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn’t it? – Tom Baker
For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there’s a base level of, ‘O.K., I think I’m decently funny.’ But unless you just have some massive ego, I really think you’re still fighting against that. – Will Ferrell
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny. – Will Ferrell
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting. – Tucker Carlson