“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”– Reba McEntire Related Quotes “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.”– Theodore Bikel “I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.”– Leslie Fiedler “During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.”– Jerry Stiller