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Quotes About Funny

Christ alive. Satan is a very beefy boy.
~ John Allison
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
She laughed loudly. It sounded to her husband like someone pushing a witch in a barrel over a waterfall. He pictured his wife in a barrel falling into very deep water, and this cheered him up a bit.
~ John Connolly
It restores your balance, in the end, even in a funny way your cheerfulness, when you come to know, without regrets, that the best thing that's going to happen in your life has already happened. -from "Snow" in The Big Book of Science Fiction
~ John Crowley
I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.
~ Frank Gorshin
Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?
~ Bo Derek
I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.
~ Thomas Jane
I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
~ Paula Poundstone
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
~ Maureen Johnson
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
~ Paula Danziger
Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke
~ Rachel Cohn
So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
~ Aisha Tyler
They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
~ Edward G. Rendell
There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said: "It is just as I feared!Two owls and a hen,Four larks and a wrenHave all built their nests in my beard."
~ Edward Lear
There's no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done that, read the book, gone mad. I first took on The Lord of the Rings at the age of eleven or twelve; to be precise, I began it at the age of eleven and finished at the age of twelve. It was, and remains, not a book that you happen to read, like any other, but a book that happens to you: a chunk bitten out of your life.
~ Anthony Lane
People have a unique method of making fun of a person on an individual account of social media because when they find the netizen is looking funny or an influential bunny or having a lot of money, her/his post gets the LIKEs from many or most but if s/he says or shares the utmost truth for no self gain, then not even one support is given often by them.
~ Anuj Somany
I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.
~ Peter Baynham
Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
~ Florenz Ziegfeld
What's nice about a lot of Wes Anderson's films is that there's a patience to it. I think that patience brings out a lot more funny things that you would miss otherwise if you just had to make quick cuts and keep the pace, whatever that pace is that bigger budget comedies have to have.
~ Wyatt Cenac
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
~ T. C. Boyle
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.
~ Matt Dillon
I love Wes Anderson films, which are quirky and funny.
~ Claudia Kim