Funny - Quotes & Sayings

Communism is like one big phone company.

Lenny Bruce

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Molly Ivins

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

Donald Glover

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Chuck Palahniuk

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Fred Allen

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Fred Allen

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Fred Allen

I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.

Chance The Rapper

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

Emo Philips

You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

Lily Tomlin

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

Larry David

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

Ogden Nash

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

Spike Milligan

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Rita Rudner

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.

Pauly Shore

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

Lewis Black

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

James Brown

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

Shaun White

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Bob Hope

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Jennifer Aniston

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Bill Maher

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Jerry Lewis

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

James Thurber

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

James Thurber

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

Chevy Chase

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Chevy Chase

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

Chevy Chase

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

Chevy Chase

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

Paul Lynde

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

Paul Lynde

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

Dennis Miller

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

David Letterman

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Matt Groening

There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

Kate McKinnon

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

Ira Glass

Never put a sock in a toaster.

Eddie Izzard

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Alanis Morissette

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Jay Leno

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

Dylan Moran

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

Daniel Tosh

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

Angie Dickinson

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Dick Cavett

It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.

Julian Casablancas

I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.

Julian Casablancas

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I remember watching Margaret Cho with my grandmother on TV. She was my hero, not only because she was funny, but because she showed me that it's okay to be yourself, that it's okay to be a brash yellow girl and to be a strong and brave woman.

Awkwafina

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Roger Ebert

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

William Feather

I've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl.

Niecy Nash

It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up.

Jimmy Kimmel