3 December 2020 Fiona Apple You know, I’ve always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
3 December 2020 Billy Connolly My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it’s a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it’s so much more alienating than vegetarianism.
3 December 2020 Scott Hamilton What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.
3 December 2020 Denise Mina I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn’t realise political writing could be so funny.
3 December 2020 Mo Rocca When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
3 December 2020 Paul Merton When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn’t about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
3 December 2020 Ian Hislop My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn’t gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you’re interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
3 December 2020 Liev Schreiber The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don’t really think about it as a regular person.
3 December 2020 Stevie Wonder Do you know, it’s funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.
3 December 2020 Mark Ruffalo People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
3 December 2020 Angie Dickinson My mother was against me being an actress – until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
3 December 2020 Tim Heidecker I’m always in situations where you can’t be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
3 December 2020 Olivia Munn I got to play with Nintendo’s Wii, yes it’s a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
3 December 2020 Craig Bruce It’s funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists’ goals.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Fallon Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.
3 December 2020 Richard Simmons I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I’m talking from my heart to these people. Because I’ve been through everything they’ve been through.
