There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say... →
Mike Birbiglia
There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.
I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.
I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you're starting... →
You get to the end of something, you're laughing, you're like, 'That's funny, and that's funny,' and then you get to the end... →
Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet.... →
Brad Bird
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such... →
Jane Birkin