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It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can not ask for much more.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I am not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I am certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

This may sound funny, but as much as the Today show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I do been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!

I think I am funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

It is funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I am talking from my heart to these people. Because I have been through everything they've been through.

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It is not like drama where you are trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You are trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

I have started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

I do not know now if I am funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that is funny.

In terms of the creative side of it, it is really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

It is funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we are on Comedy Central and because we are South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, Well it is obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

TV is easier: it is all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

It is funny because I am a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I am more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.

It is funny because it is funny.

I am on so late I am definitely the last seconds of anyone attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, That is funny, then fall asleep.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I am from. I wouldn't move back there, but it is funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women is restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.