The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.
— Rose Byrne
A good joke can spread throughout the Internet between the time you go to bed and the time you wake up, leading to an inbox filled with pictures of funny cats and cheeseburgers.
— Rosanna Pansino
This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.
— Rory McIlroy
I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese comedian - but at the same time embracing my voice and who I am and what makes me unique, you know, which is the racial background.
— Ronny Chieng
There are many comics around who don't really have a feel for comedy. They can say outrageous things, have clever thoughts, and deliver some funny angles. But they are not genuinely funny.
— Ronnie Corbett
One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
— Ronald Reagan
The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into it, and there are ways I think of doing this, and one of them is through the senses, through the sounds and the smells.
— Ronald Frame
I was always a funny guy. I don't think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn't a funny guy when they were young.
— Ron White
The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.
The next time you have a thought... let it go.
Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny... There's no time for anything to develop.
— Ron Shock
If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.
— Ron Livingston
Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, 'Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.'
— Ron Funches
Trying to be funny is arguably the least funny thing you can do.
— Romesh Ranganathan
There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the least funny human to exist because of my desperation to say something amusing.
I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.
— Roisin Murphy
To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.
— Roger Federer
I get a lot of my sense of comedy from my mother. She's very funny, but she doesn't know she's funny.
— Rose Abdoo
I don't like the five-person group dynamic. I just never have. It doesn't make sense to me that six people would just sit in a circle and say, 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval.' 'I have something funny to say,' 'No, I have something funny to say, me!' It's hard to make plans.
— Rosa Salazar
I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.
— Rooney Mara
A man can add to his sexuality by being funny, whereas a woman can diminish hers. I don't know why that's the case: it's completely unfair.
The funny thing about the golf swing is that you try to alter it and end up with the same faults as you've had all your life.
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
As a small child, I could watch anything happen and tell a story, and it was funny.
All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.
I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.
When people come up to me and ask for my autograph and everything... I find it funny that people want my autograph.
— Ron Stallworth
I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.
— Ron Pope
Bill Watterson, creator of the extremely popular 'Calvin and Hobbes,' did know when to quit and closed up shop while Calvin and his tiger were just about as fresh and funny as they had been on their first day in newspapers.
— Ron Goulart
When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.
— Romola Garai
I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.
I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.
— Rolf Harris
Of the Queen tributes, some of them are very funny, and some of them are really not funny at all. The terrible ones are cheesy and pantolike, more about dressing up in a Brian May wig and a Freddie Mercury moustache, and what they're missing out is the fact that the music is quite complicated and actually not easy to perform.
— Roger Taylor
Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.
— Rosario Dawson
The way to talk about something sad is to sing a funny song about it.
— Rory O'Malley
I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.
— Ronny Cox
The really funny moments you notice throughout your life are very seldom generated by one person telling a joke.
It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
— Ronald Knox
My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I'm very 'preacher-ish' on stage, not by intent but because that's where I learned to talk in front of people.
I just try to keep it fresh without sacrificing funny.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.
The funny thing about 'Office Space' is I almost never get my lines quoted back to me.
I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.
— Ron Glass
We've all seen comedians look like they're reaching just a little bit too much for the laugh. This is counterproductive. The conceit of standup is that it is effortless, which makes the prospect of generating new comedy a tricky one: you are trying to be funny without looking like you are trying to be funny.
There is a magical, unexplainable phenomenon that still occurs to this day where, however funny you think the material you've written is, as soon as you turn up to a gig to try it out, it becomes almost incoherent.
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
— Roland Joffe
You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.
— Roger Moore
