There’s a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way. – Evan Osnos
‘Wonder Showzen’ is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn’t know comedy could do that. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show. – Eric Andre
I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing ‘Saturday Night Live’ and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television. – Dana Carvey
Usually, if I think something is really funny, I’m not gonna test it. I’ll just test it when I’m onstage. – Donald Glover
Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, ‘I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too’ and he said, ‘Oh really?’ And I said, ‘I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.’ He didn’t take the joke well, he didn’t laugh and didn’t think it was funny – I thought it was funny. It’s all the same to me. – Michael Clarke Duncan
It’s to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that’s my method. – Edward Hopper
Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny – and yes, a good man. – Monica Crowley
I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it’s funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path. – Emmitt Smith
I would say just start writing. You’ve got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me – he didn’t have a sense of humor. I don’t know anything he’s written that’s funny. – Elmore Leonard
I’m blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I’m sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I’m nice – and I like to eat. – Paris Hilton
I was never an actress in high school. I didn’t start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn’t even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business. – Debra Monk
What I fell in love with as a child was ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘Funny Face,’ ‘American in Paris,’ and ‘Singin’ in the Rain.’ Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron. – Dianna Agron
I’ll think of the idea and then I’ll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny. – David Cross
Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing’s funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we’re political. – Fred Hampton
If you’re talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset. – Guido van Rossum
I don’t think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them. – George Cukor
In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn’t have a lot of therapy, who’s mature. A man, not a boy. – Maura Tierney
It’s funny, because people always say when they meet me, having read me – or they read me, having met me – that they are struck by how the tone is pretty similar, in real life and in the books. – Geoff Dyer
My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they’re going to have a surprising experience. – Matthew Bourne
The movies I’ve made, I’m really proud of them. But the experience I’ve had is, people say to me, ‘Oh my God, I saw your movie on HBO. It was actually funny.’ Like, that’s always the experience. It’s a backhanded compliment. – Nicholas Stoller
I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It’s like comedy bankers’ hours. – Chris Eigeman
The popular girls let me hang out with them because I was funny. They told me that. ‘You’re not popular, but you’re funny.’ Now all my friends are funny. – Nia Vardalos