I think we’re all good and bad, but good’s not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
‘Smart, Funny and Black’ is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.
It is funny to me that because I can run, because I’m athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.
If I look at a ref funny, I’m getting a tech. If I say anything wrong on the street, it’s on Worldstar or TMZ.
I wanted to explain that just because I’m rapping in this funny way doesn’t mean that I’m not worthy of actually being evaluated as a rapper.
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.
I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director – he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.
As far as I’m concerned, ‘The Caretaker’ is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.
You can almost liken ‘Bad Samaritan’ to ‘Funny Games’ because it’s that theme of horror just down the street in your neighborhood.
I think if I’m with a friend group, I try to be as funny as possible, and I don’t always succeed, obviously.
Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.
At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.
For some reason and I don’t know why, but I don’t think that I’m funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.
I think it’s a comedian’s job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.
How can you analyse what is funny? What’s funny to one isn’t funny to another… What’s funny to you is a personal thing.
I tweet from bed. I love it because it’s so quick. And it’s funny. But it also leaves a lot of room for error because new people don’t sense the sarcasm – there’s no sarcasm font.
I saw 28 Days. I don’t remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It’s a big landfill.
It’s funny, because when you tell people you’ve stopped drinking, there’s an automatic reaction. People ask, ‘Was it a lifestyle choice or were you waking up in a skip?’
It’s very rare to be able to do a show where the most important thing is being funny.
God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.
