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"Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it."
Ben Stiller
"Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it."
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"It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers."
Julie Benz
"It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers."
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"When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not."
Joseph Bologna
"When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not."
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"I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny."
Brendan Fraser
"I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny."
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"Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree."
Ellen Muth
"Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree."
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"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man."
Frank Carson
"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man."
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"To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best."
Eric Idle
"To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best."
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"I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny."
Christopher Meloni
"I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny."
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"The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot."
Rose Byrne
"The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot."
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"People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life."
Mark Ruffalo
"People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life."
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"I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker."
Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker."
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"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."
Christopher Durang
"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."
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"I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way."
Joe Rogan
"I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way."
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"Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored."
Bob Saget
"Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored."
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"The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny."
James Denton
"The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny."
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"The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh."
Joe Rogan
"The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh."
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"Funny is funny is funny."
Bob Newhart
"Funny is funny is funny."
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"I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too."
Laura Prepon
"I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too."
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"It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever."
Rosario Dawson
"It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever."
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"When I was a kid I had this funny blond hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird."
Nicky Hilton
"When I was a kid I had this funny blond hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird."
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"It's so funny whenever things come full circle."
Swoosie Kurtz
"It's so funny whenever things come full circle."
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"I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time."
Ben Stiller
"I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time."
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"Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with."
Tim Conway
"Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with."
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"Funny is when you're serious."
Harvey Korman
"Funny is when you're serious."
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"So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny."
Eva Longoria
"So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny."
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"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."
Ellen DeGeneres
"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."
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"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."
Caroline Dhavernas
"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."
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"I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years."
June Lockhart
"I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years."
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"It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds."
Anthony Anderson
"It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds."
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"So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life."
Piper Perabo
"So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life."
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"Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque."
Martin Mull
"Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque."
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"I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information."
Samantha Bee
"I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information."
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"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."
Robert Downey, Jr.
"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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"Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos."
Marian McPartland
"Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos."
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"But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that."
Wanda Sykes
"But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that."
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"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny."
Ronald Knox
"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny."
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"But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny."
Tea Leoni
"But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny."
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"I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest."
Janeane Garofalo
"I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest."
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"They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation."
Michael York
"They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation."
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"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."
Louise Jameson
"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."
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"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."
Theodore Bikel
"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."
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"Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something."
Kel Mitchell
"Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something."
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"People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player."
Sheryl Crow
"People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player."
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"Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke."
Alex Winter
"Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke."
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"Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching."
Ivan Reitman
"Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching."
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"Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny."
Seth MacFarlane
"Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny."
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"It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more."
Matt Groening
"It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more."
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"It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean."
Mae West
"It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean."
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"But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on."
Alex Winter
"But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on."
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"It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing."
Pamela Stephenson
"It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing."
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