Top 90 Being Funny Quotes

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I’m big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.

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

You, the actor, must be aware of when you’re being funny, but the character you’re playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

I knew I could rap a little bit, which is not the most unique way for being funny. The more I did it, the better I got at rapping, and then I fell in love with the craft of it, and the possibility that I was a good rapper was very intriguing.

Three high schools. I was funny. I thought I was being funny. I just had an opinion about everything that was said in school, so that got me thrown out.

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying ‘yes and’ to other people’s ideas, making statements.

I’ve always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid and was always doing bits for my friends and family. I remember doing pratfalls on the playground in fourth grade for my friend and really hurting my hip.

I don’t think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism.

A comedian’s body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

I was the troublemaker, always being funny – that’s just who I am.

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

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give ’em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don’t like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot’s mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

People don’t realize it’s not just about being funny, and they don’t know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples’ emotions.

You shouldn’t worry who gets the funny line, just that you’re being funny as a double act. With us, it flips all the time. There’s no real straight man or funny man.

At the end of the day I’m writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

I’m like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you’re with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, ‘God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.’

Being funny is a symptom of what’s underneath. You’re pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

I’m good at being funny.

Back when Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin were doing roasts, they were all friends. They knew each other’s children, each other’s wives, each other’s families. It wasn’t about being disrespectful. It was about being funny.

I can’t prevent myself of being funny.

If you’re public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you’re nervous about a date and thinking, ‘I’m gonna be a dork,’ picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.

Being funny wasn’t a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

I like to have fun, but I don’t think of myself as being funny. But I’m a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

‘Friends’ played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

I’m a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

Straight talking and going on your instincts was important when I grew up. And being funny.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It’s a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

It’s very rare to be able to do a show where the most important thing is being funny.

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

You can hate me for being a woman, you can hate me for being smart, you can hate me for being funny, but you hate me because I am doing something you could never do. End of story.

I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.

If you try to be funny, you’re not being funny.

I think there are a lot of shows out there that value being hip or cool over being funny and heartfelt.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don’t think you can think about that. I don’t think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

It’s a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

I guess I’m pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They’ll say, ‘He did it well.’ I like being funny; it opens people up.

I don’t really find things funny unless they’re deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you’re funny just for the sake of being funny, it’s just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

I’d rather not have a moment when I’m known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you’re interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

Being funny is very complex.

I can’t watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That’s my job.

Being funny is everything to me.

You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I’m making a career out of it.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they’ll laugh at you, too.

Being funny is my biggest differentiator, and I think I’d be a fool not to use that, and there’s nothing I enjoy personally more than making a human being laugh. But then, I also think I have a serious side to me.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It’s why I started acting – to make my friends laugh.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, ‘Why didn’t you do that when you were on television?’

On ‘The Simpsons,’ I will say that we definitely like to comment on what’s going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we’ve gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It’s not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

I truly think comedy is – being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, ‘Your father helped my mother die.’ You know what I’m saying? He made her laugh ’til she died. My father was always very funny.

I don’t want to come across the wrong way, which is hard when being funny or sarcastic at times, but I also want to make my posts more interesting.

One night I went to this comedy club and paid a hard-earned $5 to get in, and every comic that came up was dry as an old turkey wishbone, as in not even close to being funny. When you’re broke and you pay $5 to see somebody, you want them to be funny.

I had everything I’d hoped for, but I wasn’t being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn’t like me for being… me.

I’m going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I’m going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play.

You want to have the perfect balance of hot and funny on your Instagram, but you never want too much of either… Don’t try to add humility to your blatant ‘hot’ posts through a half-hearted attempt at being funny. You look good; just own it.