If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.


Alan King

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Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.
N.K. JEMISIN
Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.
ADI ALSAID
If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.
JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR
It's a funny old world - a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.
W. C. FIELDS
Funny is funny is funny.
BOB NEWHART
The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
CARINE ROITFELD
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothi...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's ...
LES DAWSON
Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying...
TONI MORRISON
What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?
IAN HAY (PSEUDONYM OF MAJOR JOHN HAY BEITH)
Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
LEWIS CARROLL
If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funn...
REBECCA HALL
If a condescending joke is truly funny, make yourself the subject- you will increase the number of p...
JOE HARSEL
If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.
H.N. TURTELTAUB
The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personali...
FUNNY, HUMOR, SCREENWRI
If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you’d be twice as funny as you are.
CASSANDRA CLARE
You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln...
AL FRANKEN
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
TOM LEHRER
Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.
PAUL NEILAN
If you ever feel funny, you probably are.
SEAN KEVIN SWEENEY
If you can't be funny, be interesting.
HAROLD ROSS
I didn't think some of the comedy was current enough to be funny today,
GARRY MARSHALL
They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room fo...
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We are the kind of group that will keep a smile on each other's faces - no matter what. If you're we...
FRED THOMAS
I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin
BILL WATTERSON
I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is ...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA
If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
KATE O'BRIEN
What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don...
WAYNE KNIGHT
I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of o...
SUSAN KELECHI WATSON
But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will travers...
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH
A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think ...
DAVID PIETRUSZA
It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.
JOHN MARSDEN
Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
TAYLOR HAWKINS
What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you cou...
RUFI THORPE
I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID
I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction...
TREVOR NOAH
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting ...
F. SIONIL JOSE
Funny how possibility can lift you. Funny how reality can slam you down.
CAT PATRICK
And he's funny. He's disarmingly funny.
MICHAEL DAVIES
Prince Charles is so funny. So, so funny.
JOAN RIVERS
I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.
CASEY WILSON
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself an...
ZAYN MALIK
There is a double standard out there. Comedy is a male business; it's not ladylike what we're doing....
WANDA SYKES
He must be a king.Why?He hasn't got shit all over him.
MONTY PYTHON
If possible, be funny.
BLAKE BAILEY
Snoop Dogg is hilarious. T.I. is really funny. Who else? 50 Cent is hilarious. Jay-Z is funny. I'...
JAY PHAROAH
A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
BOBBY DARIN
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to pro...
NIGELLA LAWSON
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny ...
WAVY GRAVY
When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We ...
MITCHELL HURWITZ
If you're public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you're nervous about a dat...
LINDSEY STIRLING
If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.
AMBER VALLETTA
What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh no...
CHEVY CHASE
If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
DANE COOK
I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can...
THOMAS JANE
Keep The Good Hope Alive! And You'll Always See Yourself Alive In The Hope!:)
JEKIN VORA
I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago."
"Waitress!" Jonas screa...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON
If I feel you're funny, I want to work with you.
DANIELLE SCHNEIDER
It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.
ERIK GRIFFIN
Funny noises are not funny
NANCY CARTWRIGHT
To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, a...
ERIC IDLE
It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch line...
STEVE BREEN
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not f...
CALVIN TRILLIN
Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It ...
EDMUND MORRIS
Be more funny! Be more funny!
GARRISON KEILLOR
Funny peculiar, or funny ha-ha?
IAN HAY
Men and women do have different perspectives on comedy and I think we have different approaches to w...
SOLON
Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy c...
TRACY MORGAN
Pretty people don't keep comedies on the air. Funny people keep comedies on the air.
ALLISON JONES
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
LARRY DAVID
You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
MATT LEBLANC
You can't lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse.
JOHN PEERS
Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yoursel...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
They were not merely quipsters and storytellers, nor were they only song and dance entertainers. The...
STANLEY GREEN
You could watch Laurel and Hardy for three minutes trying to get into a berth in a train. And that's...
MICHAEL RICHARDS
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Its overwhelming, ... Its funny. You never put a price tag on yourself, so I didn't think it would g...
EVA LONGORIA
You know what's funny? Laughing.
DAN O'DONNELL
If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
CARRIE FISHER
This is funny.
DOC HOLLIDAY
What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funn...
MAGGIE CAREY
Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysteric...
BOB NEWHART
And you know how funny he was, right?
CHARLIE BRILL
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER
If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because s...
PAULA PELL
Sex is funny and love is serious.
STEPHAN JENKINS
I am who I am and I am who I was, and I am who I will always be!
EMRYS
It's funny because it's funny.
DAVID SPADE
I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.
JON PARDI
Let it play. It's funny. I'm glad I got that highlight if they are going to keep playing it and put ...
ED REED
If it gets laughs, it's funny.
RACHEL DRATCH
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wa...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI STEVENSON
If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny...
DOUG TENNAPEL
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connec...
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STEPHEN KING
[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
STEPHEN KING
It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
STEPHEN KING
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
STEPHEN KING
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
STEPHEN KING
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING
As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I...
A.S. KING
As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it arou...
A.S. KING
I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away ...
A.S. KING
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
STEPHEN KING
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col...
STEPHEN KING
Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
STEPHEN KING
You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
STEPHEN KING
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
STEPHEN KING
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KING
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING
Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
STEPHEN KING
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eightie...
FLORENCE KING
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING
Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.
STEPHEN KING
Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced...
FLORENCE KING
Please, we can get along here.
RODNEY KING
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p...
FLORENCE KING
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING