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So that is why one of my rules of parody writing is that it is gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

People never ask people doing serious music, Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

I have never really understood that. It is a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that is about it.

Married with Children was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.;Katey Sagal;funny 26270;My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.;Ian Hislop;funny 26271;I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.;Dave Chappelle;funny 26272;It is funny recently I have started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it is basically like a hyperactive child.;Dave Grohl;funny 26273;It is funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.;Corey Feldman;funny 26274;It is funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I have been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It is just cause we are all named Emma. None of us look alike.;Emma Roberts;funny 26275;I do not really have a type of guy I like. It is just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.;Emma Roberts;funny 26276;But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can not forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff Does not work.;Robert Downey, Jr.;funny 26277;I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.;Rachael Ray;funny 26278;And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.;Drew Brees;funny 26279;I think we are the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It is not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.;Rainn Wilson;funny 26280;We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It is bizarre, and they are writing some very funny stuff.;Matt Groening;funny 26281;Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons subversive story telling, but there is another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.;Matt Groening;funny 26282;I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends do not think I am funny.;Dane Cook;funny 26283;I did not plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it is juvenile, but that is me.;Jimmy Carr;funny 26284;Only bad golfers are lucky. They are the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.;Lee Trevino;funny 26285;Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.;Thom Yorke;funny 26286;We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.;David Walliams;funny 26287;I love a smart, well-written show, and 30 Rock, well, you can not get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There is nothing that she does that is not funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It is so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the Housewives with Queen of Jordan, their show-within-the-show.;Andy Cohen;funny 26288;I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.;Frank Carson;funny 26289;It is unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they are like a baby - it is not so funny.;Michael Haneke;funny 26290;'Funny Games was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that is quite different. Funny Games is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.;Michael Haneke;funny 26291;When I first envisioned Funny Games in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.;Michael Haneke;funny 26292;I have an inability to enjoy things, but that is why we are in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.;Paul Feig;funny 26293;For years, it is driven me crazy that women do not have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.;Paul Feig;funny 26294;I love funny people, and when I am with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, Hey let me tell you a joke.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they are going to go for, and it is just great.

What I do not like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there is no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you do not want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here is the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Women is humor seems to be a little more supportive. It is just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I am going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

It is funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I am not that. I do not want to be that.

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It is funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

See, I do not really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I have had have come after me. So it is really funny when girls get offended because I do not hit on them.

It is interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. Did your Bond do that? Yes mine did! So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

Funny is an attitude.

My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we are dead earnest, humor is the only thing that is dead.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

I do not believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It is funny because it is ridiculous and it is ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I will be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be comedies and not female or male, and everyone gets an equal opportunity.