Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
— Umberto Eco
Vince McMahon said to Triple H, ‘Are you sure he's a heel? I don't know. He's funny.' He decided he wanted me to be a babyface and when they came to me they said, ‘You can say no, but here's what we're looking at. Funkasaurus is the fastest way to be back on TV.'
— Tyrus
It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'
— Tyler Joseph
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.
— Ty Burrell
I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.
— Twiggy
No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.
— Tucker Max
When I walked in on 'Drag Race' and saw Katya, I had no idea she was gonna be funny, because she was stunning. She had this perfect red lip, I remember looking into her eyes and being like, 'This is a woman!' Then she was really funny. She kind of presents normal, and it's a one-two punch with the comedy.
— Trixie Mattel
I think you could take any Bruckheimer movie and do it with puppets, and it would be screamingly funny.
— Trey Parker
It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.
If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian.
— Trevor Noah
I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'
— Tracy Morgan
I know my spirit is not mean, and I have a very good spirit and a funny spirit.
Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.
'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.
I think serial monogamy says it all.
— Tracey Ullman
It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.
— Tori Spelling
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
Life is funny and weird.
— Tyrann Mathieu
'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk' wasn't some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.
— Tyler Farr
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
— Twinkle Khanna
Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
— Tucker Carlson
I never considered myself a funny person.
— Tricky
All the religions are super funny to me.
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.
I don't need no stool and mike stand. I don't need all of that to be funny. I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me. I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.
If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
'Funny' is really cool live. You break it down into an acoustic set, and sometimes I'll do that one unplugged and off the mic, depending on the venue.
— Tori Kelly
I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
— Uma Thurman
I think there's this new kind of character; it's a sidekick-slash-leading man role. People like Zach Galifianakis and Seth Rogen have been really successful in those roles. You don't have to be this square-jawed, chiseled, deep-voiced Superman; you can be funny and normal and put in the leading man category.
— Tyler Labine
My dad was a fiercely funny guy, and he and his brother would get on runs. So my younger brother and I were basically mimicking them when we started goofing off.
'Mrs Funnybones' is based and structured around my columns, and it's about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. Since I have a weakness for illustrations, there are also a few funny illustrations in there as well.
I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.
— Tuppence Middleton
It's a very ancient culture, British culture. You can't be seen to be too wealthy, and you certainly can't be seen to be giving away any of your wealth either because that's sort of vulgar, too. It's funny, that, because in New York, if you are wealthy, you have to be philanthropic to be successful.
— Trudie Styler
When you're watching 'Armageddon,' and the Aerosmith song starts... Super funny.
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'
Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.
I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.
— Trevor Moore
Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.
The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!
I think the word 'pregnant' is funny.
I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.
It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.
— Tracee Ellis Ross
