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Its funny how most activists are pacifists. – Craig Bruce

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I havent realised. – Emily Mortimer

If you think somethings funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty. – Olivia Munn

I really dont know what makes a comedian. I think its a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line. – Bob Newhart

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because its funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play thats enjoyable because its disturbing. – Wallace Shawn

I dont happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I dont know whats funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally. – Wallace Shawn

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didnt understand, and in a way still dont, because when I look in a mirror it doesnt seem funny to me. – Wallace Shawn

For some reason, people find me funny. Its quite hard to define why a thought is funny. Its even harder to define why a person would be funny. Its a word that I cant define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it. – Wallace Shawn

We all know funny people who cant get it down on the page – even funny writers who cant get it down on the page. – Calvin Trillin

If its inappropriate to write about, if theres nothing funny about it, then its not funny. – Calvin Trillin

Its funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment! – Garth Brooks

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that its not jokes that are funny, its characters that are funny. And isnt that true! Thats why I always kill jokes. Im terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I cant get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon. – David Mitchell

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large dont try to trip you up… they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do… if theyve loved a story they love to know how it started. – Michael Morpurgo

Its so funny, because right now Im very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, Im probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now. – Gillian Anderson

Its a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior. – Scarlett Johansson

I have no idea what Im going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny. – Don Rickles

I also think if youre an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise youre just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line thats not in the commercial they think youre a genius. – Amy Poehler

Most of the gaffes Ive made have not been funny – theyve been stupid. – Jim Lehrer

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On Parks and Rec, weve got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we dont just effuse to one another and be like, Oh, Rob Lowes really funny, if he wasnt. – Chris Pratt

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. Bridesmaids is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as Bad Teacher. – Chris Pratt