“This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.”
– Charisma Carpenter
“I mean, I’m married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything – funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.”
– Seal
“I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.”
– Stephen Dorff
“A film that I love is ‘Raising Arizona’ and that’s funny but it’s quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I’d love to do something like that. Who knows?”
– Stephen Moyer
“And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there’s so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.”
– James Denton
“It’s so funny when you’re actually directing because things start popping that you don’t expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn’t quite have the impetus that you thought it might.”
– Stephen Moyer
“Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it’s funny. You’re just sitting there like, ‘Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?’ It’s such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.”
– Todd Phillips
“It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.”
– Abel Ferrara
“You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I’d never make another comedy. You couldn’t pick a less funny group than critics – you couldn’t find a more bitter group of people!”
– Todd Phillips
“If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.”
– Jason Segel
“I don’t think my judgment is that good. I don’t know what is funny.”
– Jerry Stiller
“When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me ‘Chick’ because I looked like Tweety Bird.”
– Nicky Hilton
“I think that ‘Hangover II’ is as funny as ‘The Hangover I,’ honest to God, but I think that it’s a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.”
– Todd Phillips
“I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.”
– Ben Stiller
“I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.”
– Ben Stiller
“I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.”
– Ben Stiller
“Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.”
– Ben Stiller
“If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don’t have their assistants and entourage, it’s funny to see what happens.”
– Daryl Hall
“Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that’s where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.”
– Julia Sweeney
“If you look at the game and everything, it’s not quite like looking at an animated film, because that’s total character. This, this is really movement, but it’s got funny little things if you look for the humor. They’re actually getting to the character.”
– Don Bluth
“Now that I’m more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I’ve bad to become more aware of my body. Since I’ve chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I’ve been used to it for years, so it’s no problem. And there’s nothing I can’t do.”
– Dana Hill
“There’s a darkness under ‘The Hangover’ because ultimately there’s a missing person and it’s not really that funny. There’s a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in ‘Old School.’”
– Todd Phillips
“I think one of the basic tasks in life – one of the nice things we can do for each other – is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.”
– Julia Sweeney
“It’s a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That’s sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn’t happen to me.”
– Joel Coen
“I appreciate humor so much, but I’m actually not a funny girl.”
– Emmanuelle Chriqui
“During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.”
– Jerry Stiller
“I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it’s a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.”
– Todd Phillips
“I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn’t want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.”
– Rob Corddry
“I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.”
– John Badham
“I’m a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it’s really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It’s kinda funny to think that I’m like the old man on campus now. But I’m really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they’re really good guys.”
– Joe Jonas