But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny, people laugh. If it’s not, they don’t. – Steve Coogan
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. – Steve Jobs
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they’re being trusted as a friend. – Sloane Crosley
The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn’t really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same. – Winnie Holzman
What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating. – Scott Hamilton
It’s funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I’m not in the first episode, but he’s at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing. – Stockard Channing
I like to have fun, but I don’t think of myself as being funny. But I’m a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot! – Taylor Lautner
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society, you’re funny. – Will Eisner
I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was ‘Funny Girl’ that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldn’t play football, so I stayed in, and I watched ‘Funny Girl.’ – Sean Harris
When you go back to ‘Friends,’ and you look at that as New York, there’s no black people. That’s not real. You’re in New York City, and there’s no black people at all. That’s a little funny. – Terry Crews
Sometimes laughing isn’t the best judge of what’s funny, ’cause I think there’s a lot of things that are really funny that don’t make you laugh, that don’t make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that. – Tim Heidecker
I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally. – Wallace Shawn
In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you’re not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny. – Stephen Root
I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don’t really need a distinction between them. – Trevor Noah
The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia. – Seal
I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn’t understand, and in a way still don’t, because when I look in a mirror it doesn’t seem funny to me. – Wallace Shawn
I’ve got a bunch of books… I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world’s most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He’s a good guy. – Wendi McLendon-Covey