I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.
Everybody likes the new guy. Being the new guy is cool. But then when you're there for a couple months, you're just the cool guy. I think I'm just the cool guy.
Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.
It doesn't matter how many times the audience has heard it before. If it's funny, it's funny.
If someone is cool to me, I'll be cool to them.
I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'
There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.
In every show that you see, there's some stuff that's funny and some stuff that is not, or there might be stuff that you find funny and I don't. That would be true for any show, however funny or popular.
People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
What's funny isn't really me. What I do is point out what I find funny in others.
Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.
It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what's cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something - out-of-the-norm stuff.
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.
We just keep trying to beat every show with the funny stick until it's funny
I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.
I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
We went to SpaceX to talk to Elon Musk, that was cool. He gave us the tour. We couldn't film it or anything. There were rockets, it was impressive. It was a lot of cool stuff.
If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?
I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.
The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.
I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.
If something's awful, I find it funny. If something's funny, I find it funny. It's my natural, go-to place.
I'm cool under pressure. Cool as a cucumber, actually, eerily so. My friends and family comment on it. I think I get it from my father, the quintessential smooth operator.
You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny.
Anti-smoking education should focus on the young as well as adults, emphasizing that 'It's not cool to smoke, because there's nothing cool about cancer.'
I thought I was going to do some cult, cool, late-night interviewing thing on BBC2. But everyone kept saying: 'No, Michael, you're teatime, you're not cool.'
I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!
It's nice to have cool parents. They're cool with everything.
Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.
I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.
I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies.
I wanna be funny, but if I have a chance to make a point while being funny - why not?
The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.
The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.
There's a difference between delivering real funny and just silly funny.
One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.
I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.
I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.
To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.
If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.
My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.
I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.
There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.
Being me is funny. I've made this weird character, and I think it's really funny.
I like to be friends with funny guys, but I don't want to date a funny guy.
I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.
I grew up in the '80s, when breaking was cool, and then it got corny in the '90s, and it became cool again with all these choreographed B-Boy dance crews.
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.
I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.
In reality, as a comedian, you're successful because you're funny, and you should be able to be funny about anything.
It was only in the second year of my Ph.D. that I started acting. I wasn't in school plays or anything; I was in bands, but I wasn't cool. There's no such thing as a cool physics person, is there?
Nothing's true that I say, because I don't really want to say anything. I don't think my life's that cool, and I don't think my opinion's that valid. They're just silly jokes. Usually I just take a topic that isn't funny at all, like Shakespeare, and work backwards. I just try to find an unfunny subject.
Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.
It's not hard for me to be funny. But it's really hard. I don't think a lot of people are funny. I meet a lot of people, and most of them aren't funny.
I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.
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