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  • Lynda Barry on funny

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    “I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women’s restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.” -Lynda Barry

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  • Alison Sweeney on funny

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    “It’s funny because I’m a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I’m more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.” -Alison Sweeney

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  • Drew Carey on funny

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    “TV is easier: it’s all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.” -Drew Carey

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  • Trey Parker on funny

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    “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.’” -Trey Parker

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  • Craig Ferguson on funny

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    “I don’t know now if I’m funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that’s funny.” -Craig Ferguson

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  • Luke Wilson on funny

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    “Especially with a comedy, you’ve got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It’s not like drama where you’re trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You’re trying to figure out what’s the funniest way to do something.” -Luke Wilson

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  • Richard Simmons on funny

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    “I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I’m talking from my heart to these people. Because I’ve been through everything they’ve been through.” -Richard Simmons

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  • Bjork on funny

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    “It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.” -Bjork

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  • Martin Short on funny

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    “I think I’m funny because my family, my siblings were funny.” -Martin Short

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  • Jane Pauley on funny

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    “This may sound funny, but as much as the ‘Today’ show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I’d been happy there. I never went into the boss’s office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, ‘Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!’” -Jane Pauley

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  • Shawn Johnson on funny

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    “It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can’t ask for much more.” -Shawn Johnson

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  • Beth Ditto on funny

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    “My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character – I am that character… It’s a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I’ve put them all to work onstage.” -Beth Ditto

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  • Seann William Scott on funny

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    “I’m never afraid to try something if I think it’s funny. And I know I’ll regret it if I don’t.” -Seann William Scott

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  • Rowan Atkinson on funny

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    “Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.” -Rowan Atkinson

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  • Sara Blakely on funny

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    “The word ‘Spanx’ was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.” -Sara Blakely

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  • Rachel Weisz on funny

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    “I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.” -Rachel Weisz

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  • Brittany Snow on funny

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    “I’m so single. It’s funny. I’m usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it’s good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.” -Brittany Snow

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  • Jordin Sparks on funny

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    “It’s funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said ‘Sparkle,’ I thought, ‘For real? It’s really called ‘Sparkle?” I was wondering, too, how does ‘Jordin Sparks as Sparkle’ sound?” -Jordin Sparks

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  • Michael Sheen on funny

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    “For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really…

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  • Ted Allen on funny

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    “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.” -Ted Allen

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  • Sloane Crosley on funny

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    “It’s funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They’re usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.” -Sloane Crosley

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  • Theodore Bikel on funny

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    “On the stage you’re there, it’s live. There’s a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.” -Theodore Bikel

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  • Vera Farmiga on funny

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    “I don’t have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.” -Vera Farmiga

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  • Caroline Kennedy on funny

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    “In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They’re short, they’re intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.” -Caroline Kennedy

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  • George M. Cohan on funny

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    “Hurried and worried until we’re buried, and there’s no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.” -George M. Cohan

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