I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they’re stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend. – Daryl Hall
My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I’d laugh, but I’d look at him, and he was the first one who told me, ‘You know, funny is a powerful thing; it’s a wonderful weapon.’ – Michael Keaton
‘Lucky’ is for laughs, and there’s really nothing funny that I’m doing on ‘Dexter.’ I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn’t mean that they are a harmless little bunny. – Colin Hanks
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. – Dana Goodyear
Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you’ve had Botox. I can tell you’ve had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one’s saying anything. We’re just accepting the fact that they’re strange-looking. – Guy Pearce
When Dad died in 1998, it really hit my confidence – he’d helped me write and he thought I was really funny, but since he’d died I didn’t feel right. And it felt like no one but me even remembered him. – Dolly Wells
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them. – Phyllis Diller
When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don’t remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don’t get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is. – Chelsea Peretti
I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don’t consider myself that funny of a person. I’m not witty. I’m kind of slow in conversations. I’m not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at. – Nathan Fielder
Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there’s truth in them, you haven’t nailed it. They aren’t as funny as they could be, and they don’t make a point. – Dan Jenkins
It’s funny; recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child. – Dave Grohl
Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. – Edward Abbey
It’s a funny thing – when I’m crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them! – Emily Giffin
The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don’t think it’s funny, but you’re convinced that other people will think it is, well they won’t. – Mo Rocca
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It’s all pretty funny, and worth making fun of. – Elizabeth Meriwether
I’ve always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary. – David Zucker
I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, ‘Let’s get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.’ I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it’s still quite funny. – Neko Case
I think the funny thing about acting for me – and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way – not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it’s that important to me – is that it is an ancient healing art. – Melissa Leo
I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I’m a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called ‘Fame L.A.’ The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn’t very funny, so they asked me, ‘What else can you do?’ So I played a singer. – Christian Kane
Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we’re familiar with in gaming and being like, ‘OK, hold on, let’s re-examine this for a second. Isn’t this funny? Isn’t this strange? Isn’t this a little bit ridiculous?’ That’s where it is. – Freddie Wong
You know, albums are a funny thing. They’re not like an intellectual decision. It’s a collection of your kind of musings. – Glen Hansard
Can someone’s true value really be estimated? Maybe there needs to be an Edmunds.com for people on TV. That would be funny and possibly cruel. – Derek Hough
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that’s what I do every week. – Eva Longoria