Funny Quotes

I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he’s clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don’t think he’s funny in either the way that Reagan was funny – or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

My brothers and sister and me grew up making fun of each other, the way we’d speak or move. When we get together, everyone’s funny, quick, loud, and speaks on top of each other. It was like a great comedy school; nothing is precious.

I don’t know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We’re very rigid. It’s funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can’t we take little parts of history and mix it together?

The original outline for ‘Mississippi Grind’ was actually an attempt to go funny. But when we showed it to people we realized that maybe it wasn’t as funny to other people as it was to us – we have a pretty specific sense of what’s funny – and then we thought, O.K., we need to do this more like we would actually make one of our movies.

With improv, it’s a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.

I just like the continue doing what I’ve been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn’t hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I’ll be a very happy person.

Saying women aren’t funny is now like saying Asians can’t drive or saying black people have bad credit. It’s just really, like, so obsolete.

Bernardo Silva and I have a relationship for a long time, we are from the same generation at Benfica, we have a very beautiful friendship because we are two completely opposite people and I think that’s the funny thing. He’s a typical person from Lisbon and I’m just that guy who practically came from the street.

Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, ‘Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.’

It’s funny – in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.