Top 45 Funny People Quotes

We all know funny people who can’t get it down on the page – even funny writers who can’t get it down on the page.

I’ve always surrounded myself with funny people.

There’s a lot of very funny people I’d love to work with that I’ve never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

Let’s just let funny people be funny.

I’ve been to many funerals of funny people, and they’re some of the funniest days you’ll ever have, because the emotions run high.

It’s funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don’t have an open mind about.

It’s funny: people who meet me say, ‘I thought you’d be different.’ But I’m still the same guy.

I definitely take after my dad, looks-wise. But my mum is my greatest inspiration. All the women in my family are amazing. They’re hilarious. I love funny people.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there – writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me – and for some reason people were still laughing.

The people from ‘The State’ are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know.

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Pretty people don’t keep comedies on the air. Funny people keep comedies on the air.

I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I’m funny, but maybe I’m one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

If you are funny, people will like you. A lot of advertising is based on this simple rule. The Tory MP Boris Johnson has benefited a lot from it.

Wouldn’t it be great, if there was a one-stop shop where funny people could take their ideas and have them made?

I grew up with interesting and funny people. We made our own fun. You had to use your imagination.

I get asked, ‘Who would you really like to work with?’ I’m already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends.

‘Funny People’ is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it’s a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn’t feel like I was playing myself. Whether it’s a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

You know, directors are funny people. They live with these movies for a year or more. And when you go in to score the picture, you’re fooling with their child. They want to know everything that happens to the score – and why.

It just seems to me that there’s no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There’s a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

It’s funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They’re usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

It’s really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.

On ‘Workaholics,’ I feel like I’m just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on ‘Mindy,’ I’m around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.

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.

I actually rarely ever get hit on. Isn’t that funny? People think I do, but I actually don’t.

It’s funny; people in Europe seem more interested in decay in America than Americans.

A good sketch show, in my opinion, gets together a bunch of fun, funny people and collects their brainfarts, and shares them.

There are funny gay people, and there are funny Indian people, and that’s why we watch TV, to laugh. It only makes sense to include all types of funny people, whether or not they’re gay or straight or what have you.

There’s only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.

There are some really funny people doing creative stuff with social media, which is sadly where a lot of my attention goes.

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.

That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I’m developing my show, that’s going to be the focus.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking ‘Can women be funny?’ People still ask that. It’s like asking: ‘Can women breathe in and out?’

I’ve always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they’re just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote ‘Ghostbusters 3’ by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

I love Nicole Holofcener’s films for their constant duality of humor and emotion and their focus on very real, if flawed, dynamics between funny people.

I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn’t about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren’t the funny people.

I am very attracted to funny people – I’d go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.

There are very funny people who aren’t good at Twitter and people who are really good on Twitter where that’s the best or the only thing they do. There are some people I know that don’t write creatively outside of Twitter, but they’re so good at Twitter.

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.

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.

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn’t know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I’m one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.