Quotes About Wit

A lot of the things I say I'm just trying to be funny... I don't really mean everything I say, because I'm not totally that airhead.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

I was born by Caesarian section . . . but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.

I've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl.

One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money.

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.