Quotes on Funny

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.

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 guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

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 remember making 'Mr. Show,' thinking, 'Man this stuff is really funny to me.' I don't know if anyone else will love it, but I know I'm going to still watch it in 15 years if I'm still alive and laugh really hard. Even though we had very high standards, we were trying to excite and please ourselves.

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.

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

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.

There isn't a lot I can do on this planet, but I can be funny.

I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.

I have found that people who really want to work at 'Saturday Night Live' and pursue it get pretty close. You have to be funny - but everyone who works there, it was their dream to work there. So it's kind of nice in that way - there's a lot of people who say, 'I just always wanted to do this, and now I'm doing it.'

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.