There's some moments in your life where you're just like, 'I need something just funny.' That's the noble thing you can do. Make someone forget about their life for 22 minutes.
— Jonathan Krisel
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
— Jonathan Davis
To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.
— Jon Watts
Success is always less funny than failure.
— Jon Ronson
It doesn't mean you can't discuss important things, but I would never do a joke about cancer, just because I don't think any joke is funny enough to justify upsetting someone who is going through that.
— Jon Richardson
I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.
— Jon Pardi
You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
— Jon Lovitz
Part of my job as a presidential speechwriter (along with great writers like Jon Favreau and David Axelrod) was finding that sliver where 'presidential' and 'actually funny' overlap.
— Jon Lovett
I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.
— Jon Hamm
It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.
— Johnny Vegas
It's funny, you know, growing up, you are always introduced to people as your uncle this or your aunt that or your cousin this. By the time I was in my 20s, I had no idea who I actually was or wasn't related to. It's kind of a running joke in the family.
— Johnny Iuzzini
I'm not a funny person.
— Johnny Flynn
It's such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you're not really looking for it, you can miss it, and Lily-Rose is on that road already, and there's nothing I can do to stop it.
— Johnny Depp
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
— Johnny Carson
Success is a funny thing. It means different things to different people. For me, I am always pleased when people connect to our brand. It means we are executing in a manner that speaks to a wide variety of businesses.
— John Varvatos
It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.
— John Scalzi
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.
— John Ridley
In Portland, it rains all the time - but who cares? That's not funny. That's not universal.
'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.
— Jonah Hill
I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.
— Jon Scieszka
I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.
In reality, as a comedian, you're successful because you're funny, and you should be able to be funny about anything.
I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.
It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.
It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.
— Jon Hopkins
This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.
My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.
— Johnny Mathis
I just said, casually, 'You know, I passed up on auditioning for Einstein.' And my friend was like, 'You idiot, you have to do it!' She made me do it. I sent the tapes off assuming that somebody would say, 'Ha ha, very funny.'
It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.
People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.
Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.
— John Waters
I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.
— John Slattery
It's funny: over time, if you're fortunate, you build a nice career, and you have these interesting moments, and I would not, looking back, trade any of them - 'Red Tails,' '12 Years a Slave' and 'Undercover Brother.'
Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.
But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
— Jonathan Franzen
The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.
There are many problems with being a comedian: the travel, the late nights, the pressure, the fear of running out of funny things to say.
In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.
— Jon Pertwee
You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.
The great thing about writing jokes for President Obama is that he is not afraid to tell jokes that are actually funny - and not just funny for a politician.
I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.
Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.
— Johnny Knoxville
I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.
I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is.
People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.
— John Searles
Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.
