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Quotes About Funny

I love Nicole Holofcener and Lynn Shelton, both for the same reasons: their films are funny without being forced, intimate and real while also being hugely entertaining.
~ Liz Tuccillo
I love Nicole Holofcener's films for their constant duality of humor and emotion and their focus on very real, if flawed, dynamics between funny people.
~ Susanna Fogel
Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
~ Karan Mahajan
In all my movies, there's always a kind of heartfelt element, to be able to do a drama and to be able to spend more time in the emotional stuff with no pressure to get back to the funny that's very liberating for me.
~ Shawn Levy
I'm asking. What's the joke?" "Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?
~ Nicholas Sparks
Even the Brazilian way of celebrating a goal - run four strides, jump, punch, run four strides, jump, punch - was alien and funny and enviable, all at the same time.
~ Nick Hornby
I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from.
~ Nora Ephron
In the workshop where I started to write fiction, you had to read your work in public. Most times, you read in a bar or coffeehouse where you'd be competing with the roar of the espresso machine. Or the football game on television. Music and drunk people talking. Against all this noise and distraction, only the most shocking, most physical, dark and funny stories got heard. Our test audience would never sit still for Barn-Raising Club.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What I do know is I've got a brain filled with jokes I can't forget - like a tumor the size of a grapefruit inside of my skull. And I know that eventually even dog shit turns white and stops stinking, but I have this permanent head filled with crap I've been trained my whole life to think is funny.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's probably the only attraction in Shartlesburg, Pennsylvania, a town whose name Miriam finds so funny she, well, nearly sharts every time she hears it.
~ Chuck Wendig
I was funny—ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless.
~ Claire Messud
My sister the booty police.
~ Victoria Laurie
What are you doing eating a salad? If you turned sideways in the wind, you'd whistle.
~ Lani Diane Rich
Ares sighed "What are the three words said most often in our house?" "Not tonight, Ares?" Than offered. "Funny," Ares growled. "Cara never says that.
~ Larissa Ione
Funny things, humans...Just when you think they're all a bunch of morons, a smart one shows up and proves you wrong. ...I do believe that was a compliment. From a demon. Go figure. Yup. Just when you think we're all a bunch of morons... One shows up and makes you fall in love with him.
~ Larissa Ione
I was so nerdy as a kid, the only thing that would have made beating me more attractive is if I'd been filled with candy.
~ Larry Getlen
Dead. I had to be dead. But dead men don't think about death. What do dead men think about? Dead men don't think. I was thinking - but I was dead. That struck me as funny and set off hysterics. And then I'd get myself under control and go 'round and 'round with it again. Dead. This was like nothing any religion had ever taught. Not that I'd ever 'caught' any of the religions going around. But none had warned of this.
~ Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
~ Laura Bush
But one must find reasons to laugh anyway, especially when nothing is funny. Sometimes joy is the only defense you have, and your only weapon. Remember that.
~ Laura Ruby
She was sharp as a tack and keen as a knife; determined, hardworking, loyal and – luckily – pretty funny with it.
~ Lauren Child
I have little sister Lola, she is small and very funny.
~ Lauren Child
Admirable? And she's related to Rey? How come he's such a weasel then?" "There's a messed up weasel in every family. Look at you." Lex smirked at his brother as he heaved himself off the couch and headed down the hall to the kitchen. He bent to grab a beer from the fridge and tossed one to Cade. "Ha ha, very funny. Call me Alpha when you say that," Cade growled.
~ Lauren Dane
You should be out stirring up trouble with your friends, not bothering with all them books you read. You know it's them books what make you talk funny.
~ Lauren Myracle
SnowAngel: Madikins, I have been thinking. mad maddie: cool! mad maddie: I haz been eating the marshmallow moons out of my box of Lucky Charms. yolo!!!! SnowAngel: AHEM
~ Lauren Myracle