We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
It's funny how most activists are pacifists.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scen...
What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.
It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be seri...
I don't just try to be funny.
On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.
It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.
It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water...
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 i...
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and...
The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.