People are apprehensive about finding ‘The Leftovers’ funny because it’s such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is about is examining how different people deal with loss. There are elements of humour and levity and irony in that… just like in real life.
What’s funny is that all the artists I’ve collaborated with, I get this feeling that they want me to win. They’re always asking my opinion, always giving me advice.
My life needs editing.
When someone calls me up and wants me to do something, of course I am open to it. But I am not going to do it if there isn’t anything interesting or funny about it.
It’s funny, when you have a theme so particular to cows – or it could be anything like hair or nails – when you’re rapping about a specific thing, you can have more punchlines about it.
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I’m being funny, but I’m reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we’re going down the tube.
Nothing’s funny about someone who’s successful.
There’s no such thing as soy milk. It’s soy juice.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.
It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.
It’s funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.
I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don’t care. For me, it’s really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.
A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It’s a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, ‘Isn’t it funny that we do that?’ It’s a way of reaching out.
I like children – fried.
When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.
You can crack a joke and make a person smile but it matters a lot when that’s on screen. It can be a very nice joke but if you shoot it badly or the actor gets the timing wrong, it won’t be funny.
I love hearing about bad behavior. It’s just so funny to me. Especially, grown ups acting like weird, inconsolable babies over really stupid things, to me, is really funny.
As for our majority… one is enough.
The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‘That can be me.’ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.
People don’t expect me to be as funny as I am.
There’s a darkness under ‘The Hangover’ because ultimately there’s a missing person and it’s not really that funny. There’s a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in ‘Old School.’
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I enjoy doing comedy that is why I pursue it. I believe that life is hard enough already and full of drama so I find things that are funny to use as material.
David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late ’80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He’s a very cool, hip guy. This film, let’s face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he’d find it funny.
Include me out.
Experience is what you have after you’ve forgotten her name.
Some guys may play around and say a couple of things, but if I say it, I mean it. I may laugh, it may be funny, but if I say I’m going to get you, I’m going to get you.
It’s a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
God hadn’t made me handsome, but he’d given me something, I always felt: funny bones.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
It’s hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
It’s funny, as you live through something you’re not aware of it.
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.
‘Red Band Society’ is inspiring, funny, and an uplifting story that makes you want to make the most of your life, love and live to the fullest, and that’s a great message.
The drawings in ‘Portal’ were actually me scribbling that stuff… I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten ‘The cake is a lie’ tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That… that’s odd.
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.
You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
For me, I can’t watch violence when it’s too grotesque, and it’s just like, that’s revolting to watch. I don’t enjoy it. But when it’s a Tarantino film, I’m lining up outside the door to see it, and I’m expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.
I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.
Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.
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.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
I’m the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
You’re only as good as your last haircut.
I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
In person, RuPaul is warm, funny, personable – someone who thoroughly enjoys life.
I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.
Hurried and worried until we’re buried, and there’s no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
I didn’t plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it’s juvenile, but that’s me.
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.
He looks as though he’s been weaned on a pickle.
It is funny to me that because I can run, because I’m athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.
I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
