I met Amy Winehouse a few times and she was always funny, charming and self-deprecating – just a delight to be around.
It’s a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I’m funny, and I’m a good person.
It’s funny, when I’m in airports and I’m walking around, maybe feeling a little tired in my sweatpants and not wanting to talk to folks, I just put on my sunglasses. And usually it works every time.
I don’t sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny – partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it’s a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
Funny is an attitude.
I’ve never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for ‘talking funny.’
I always had funny stories to tell, but my family members never laughed at them.
James Caan told me at the end of filming ‘Elf’ that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny – and I never was.
Bobby Ball, who plays my dad in ‘Not Going Out,’ is very funny. He has a magical sense for comedy that nobody has been able to replicate.
Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.
I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.
I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
If it bends, it’s funny; if it breaks, it’s not funny.
Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I’m a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make people laugh, so writing comedy comes naturally to me.
I don’t think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism.
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It’s very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they’re funny, they’re not company men who work their way up the chain.
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
It’s funny how getting older – or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades – can make you change your ambitions.
