You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
— Harvey Korman
I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.
— Harry Lloyd
I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
— Harold Wilson
Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.
— Harold Ramis
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
— Harland Williams
My theatre is not a conventional one. It is bold, serious, funny, confronting. It is anything but boring.
— Haris Pasovic
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
— Hanya Yanagihara
I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
— Hannibal Buress
I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be celebrating these moments at the Catdance Film Festival.
— Hannah Simone
Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
— Hannah Murray
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
— Hank Azaria
I'm a funny guy. I love to laugh. I love to have a good time. You'll never see me down or, before the game, looking mad. I'm just not that type of person.
— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
— H. R. Giger
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
— H. L. Mencken
David Wain's character on 'Bob's Burgers' is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.
— H. Jon Benjamin
It's funny because when you're a Welshman living in England, you always get the mickey taken out of you for being Welsh, and then when you go to Wales with an English accent because you were born in Bristol and grew up in Birmingham, they say you're English. You can never win.
— Gwilym Lee
To me, the funniest American of the Twentieth Century is Richard Nixon because he had the most to hide, and he was so bad at hiding it. To me, that's what's really funny - people who think they're doing a great job of hiding stuff, and it just keeps leaking out.
— Harry Shearer
I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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.
— Harold Pinter
If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
— Hari Kondabolu
I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
Funny how one halfpipe run can change your life.
— Hannah Teter
It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like 'Wreck on the Highway.' It ain't a funny song.
— Hank Williams
It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
— Haley Bennett
That's what you don't see about coach Saban. He's a very funny guy.
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.
— Guy Pearce
My job is to take what I think is funny and to make other people think it's funny, too.
You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.
Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
— Harold Brodkey
I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.
I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'
It is so cool to think that there are two female, Indian actresses on prime-time American network television who are considered attractive and funny and smart.
Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
— Hailee Steinfeld
You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Voice actors I used to know who were starting out in comedy were guys who did a lot of voices. They were usually comedy actors who developed their comedy by doing tons of impressions and voices that were usually very funny. And I never did any of that, so that's, I guess, why I don't consider myself a voice actor.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
— H. G. Wells
