I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That’s probably my favorite one. What’s funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine. – Chris Paul
And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it. – Al Franken
My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not. – Anna Held
You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck. – Bubba Smith
I think I got a lot of my ‘funny’ DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous. – Christopher Buckley
I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I’ll think is funny. – Anthony Jeselnik
Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you’re listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing… You’re really trying to emulate them, then you realize, ‘I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.’ – Alex Borstein
As a child, I’d always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers – gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background. – Anthony Browne
I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny ‘stuff’ but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again – I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter. – Al Jolson
My mom wasn’t so much such a great cook. But I don’t know, I think I have a very strong mother, and it’s funny, because both of my sisters – I have two sisters, and I’m the baby, but they all work hard. I’m not sure where I get it from, and I’m not sure where they get it from, but they must get it from somewhere… I like to work. – April Bloomfield
I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It’s like rock n’ roll here. Britain’s a funny place and there’s a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves. – Brendan Coyle
With Portlandia, I don’t think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We’re okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy. – Carrie Brownstein
It was always a fantasy of mine growing up – my favorite program was always ‘Little House on the Prairie’ – so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn’t let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now… whaddaya know, every day I’m in a calico dress, basically, so it’s kind of funny. – Chloe Sevigny
I like Ben Stein. I think he’s funny, creative, and an insightful commentator on a host of issues. – Chuck Norris
I wasn’t a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing. – Alan Zweibel
The funny thing is while the grown-ups in the family may indulge, we really try to offer our son Duke clean food, as all his meals are made with organic ingredients as the rest of us eat cookies straight out of the freezer. – Bill Rancic
The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. – Arthur C. Clarke
Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What’s that all about? I’ve got kids and family and friends, and I don’t like bad things. I don’t think they’re funny, and it’s irresponsible to make movies that don’t show you how that’s not good. – Billy Bob Thornton
All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny. – Casey Wilson
Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. – Bill Vaughan
What is extraordinary about the character of Edna – and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you – I’m, as it were, in the wings, and she’s on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: ‘I wish I’d thought of that.’ – Barry Humphries
My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I’m sort of ridiculous. – Ben Foster
I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far. – Billy Connolly