I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That’s how you know someone is clever. They don’t come out and tell you pi to 13 places – they tell you a joke.
I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is probably one of the funniest people I’ve ever met in my life. Everything the kid does is funny. I think he tunes his life to being funny.
I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.
By the way, I’m funniest when I’m not being funny. I’m better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn’t about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
There’s not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it’s nice to have a big muscly guy being funny and stupid.
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.
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.
Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they’re down, and when they’re having a good time, I can carry on the joke.
When I’m being funny, I try not to offend. I don’t think much of what I’ve done has been in really ghastly taste. I don’t think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.
If you record the world honestly, there’s no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn’t get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
You always have some trans girl saying, ‘Oh, they were just being funny! They aren’t really transphobic,’ Just like you will always have some black folks defending some white person for using the ‘N’ word because they are ‘cool.’
I love the studio audience. That’s where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you’re being funny or not.
To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!
It’s interesting – I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like ‘Everwood’ that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.
With drama, you know if you’re having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn’t laugh, then you know you’re not being funny. That’s a really fun challenge, and that’s what draws me to comedy.
The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I’ve given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.
It would be amazing if we got someone like Sarah Silverman on the show, not having a script and just being herself. That’s the best part of doing this show: just having funny people being funny.
I guess one that wouldn’t be obvious is – well, maybe it’s super obvious, I can’t tell – ‘I Love Lucy’ is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I’ve watched every episode I don’t know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
I always dreamed of being an entertainer. So, my whole life to some extent, or from the age that I can remember onwards, I knew I was going to have to make some sort of attempt at being noticed for being funny.
‘Bridesmaids,’ I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.
It’s a sad day when a woman being funny and interested in science is considered newsworthy.
There’s nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.
I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it’s the truth. I love my work, but it ain’t easy.
In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.
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