I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.
I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me.
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!
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?'
I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.
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.
I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.
In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.
With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.
I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
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.
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.
A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is 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.
I love being funny and talking with fellas.
I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.
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