In terms of the creative side of it, it’s really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever. – Trey Parker
My parents were very funny – they didn’t know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ. – Tim Conway
I thought ‘Borat’ was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn’t some studio-produced script with 14 writers. – Steve Martin
I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge – and I guess that’s what makes it funny, that tension. – Tatiana Maslany
A mate of mine told me recently, ‘It’s the first time I’ve seen you work, Worthington.’ I thought that was quite funny, but he was right. – Sam Worthington
On the stage you’re there, it’s live. There’s a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away. – Theodore Bikel
When I’m not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It’s funny because you’re in this little bubble when you’re working – you don’t read books, you don’t really keep up with the news, you’re just living that life. – Taylor Kitsch
It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish. – Stephen Leacock
I don’t think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students – they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one. – Wendy Liebman
Being funny wasn’t a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day. – Tracy Morgan
When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better. – Steve Breen
It’s funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can’t remember the exact years, it’s funny isn’t it? – Steve Hackett
My job on ‘Dark Shadows’ was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having. – Seth Grahame-Smith
It was very hard to make ‘Funny Face’ in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you’re always wondering: ‘Am I doing it right?’ – Stanley Donen
I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things. – Todd Barry
I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it’s really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It’s that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing. – Tamsin Greig
I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus. – Steve Finley
The funny guy doesn’t get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn’t have. – Will Ferrell
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. – Taylor Swift