Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.
— Pauly Shore
If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'
— Paula Pell
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
— Paula Danziger
I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
— Paul Simon
I've noticed, as a comedy fan, that I really like Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino because when they're funny, they're actually funny. It's not like when other dramatic writers have comedy, and I'm just like, 'Well, that's not funny. Why are you even trying to make a joke here?'
— Paul Rust
I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.
— Paul Rudd
I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny.
George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me.
— Paul Provenza
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.
— Paul Mooney
I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
— Paul Merton
I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
— Paul Lynde
But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
— Paul Krugman
'Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made me uncomfortable. I saw horrible things in people and saw terrible things in myself. I saw a black director completely humiliated, but the three people around me just thought it was funny. 'No,' I said, 'that is selling your soul.'
— Paul Haggis
Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.
— Paul Feig
I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.
I think that we all enjoy silliness to varying degrees but I think everyone can enjoy a relatable thing if it is expressed in a funny way.
— Paul F. Tompkins
The ideas that you find funny and the things that you are offering to an audience are tied up with who you are and your soul and your heart.
I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.
— Paula Poundstone
I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.
The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.
I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.
— Paul Shaffer
It's funny; before I started writing professionally, I had a job logging video footage for behind-the-scenes footage for special features.
I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.
Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.'
Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.
— Paul O'Grady
Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.
Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.
— Paul Mazursky
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.
— Paul Horn
It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions that get made. You look back, and at the time they don't seem like it, but you look back, and you see they were absolutely fundamental.
— Paul Greengrass
What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.
I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'
The first thing you start with when you're trying to write something funny is it has to - it really has to come to you first. I has to be an idea that you have that first makes you laugh, that strikes you as funny.
Some people just want to make up the funny things and play pretend.
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
— Paula Deen
It's so funny: I sort of fell into genre roles, but I'm not really a genre guy.
— Paul Wesley
It's funny to think of Dave Chappelle's show and how popular it was and he was before YouTube. I would imagine 'Chappelle's Show' would be even more giant if there was a chance to put his stuff online and pass it around.
— Paul Scheer
I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit.
I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.
Fear is what makes comedy funny.
Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things.
— Paul Morrissey
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.
Here's the funny thing: Nothing drives a performance like an audience that gives back and even takes over. ECW was a product that will be remembered as much, if not more, for its audience interaction as for the things that happened in the ring.
— Paul Heyman
It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice.
— Paul Giamatti
What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.
For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
You can make me laugh at a thing that I think is horrific. You can make me laugh at a thing that affects me personally. But if you've done your homework and you've gone about it the right way, it will still be funny.
