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The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you do not think it is funny, but you are convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he is clever, and I think he can be witty. But I do not think he is funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

But, sooner or later I do love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people do not think that that is in my wheelhouse because I have sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that is certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Is not that funny? The tables have turned.

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It is funny, when you look back at it, it is one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on Homeland, there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That is happened a lot. Or they are often purely victims.

You can not be funny if you do not have good material.

I have funny bones. If there is ever any kind of tension, I will always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

It is funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they do not have the money to hide from it.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

You can not be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

It is funny, because I sometimes feel that I am most creative when I am pregnant.

Johnny Rotten. He is a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He is funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Do not think he is a jerk because he is not.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Back in the 70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids movie, but I do not think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I did not see how we could make the show light and funny any more.