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Funny Quotes


"You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in."


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



"Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world."



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



"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."



"We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny."


"I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet."


"Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny."



"We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think."


"We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny."


"I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny."


"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."



"I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece."


"It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it."


"But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick."


"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles."


"I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do."


"I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front."


"I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker."


"It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible."


"We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic."



"Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist."



"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't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work."
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