There is a double standard out there. Comedy is a male business; it's not ladylike what we're doing. But at the end of the day, if it's funny, it's funny, and funny tends to quiet the criticisms.
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Related There are, out there, some perceptions about what business training is, and they're not always posit... JACK BRITTAIN I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting c... SANDRA BULLOCK For me, it really first has to be a good story and be funny. If you're doing sincere comedy, the edg... AARON MCGRUDER If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, t... AISHA TYLER I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm a... NED VIZZINI What would politics be without its own particular peculiar sense of humour, even if it is not quite ... LINO SPITERI You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliche... WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr... JIM MORRISON It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny. ERIK GRIFFIN Girls look at me up and down
and have nothing to say.
But its funny how the words come out when i wa... ISABELLA What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight m... CHRISTOPHER GUEST From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere! DR. SUESS A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding foreve... DIANA VREELAND There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connec... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Wanda is a tremendous talent. Image has firmly established itself as a leading producer and distribu... BARRY GORDON But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will travers... THOMAS HADEN CHURCH To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, a... ERIC IDLE When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy... MICHAEL KEATON There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothi... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals. LARRY HAGMAN Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. PETER USTINOV Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious PETER USTINOV Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! HERGé Women cant help but be on their mobiles all day, BUT if they go out funny how the dam thing stays at... MIKE GRIST (Comedy) is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right... JULIANNE MOORE You could watch Laurel and Hardy for three minutes trying to get into a berth in a train. And that's... MICHAEL RICHARDS I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-lo... JENNIFER COOLIDGE Its better to be fun and funny, than to be angry and grumpy. PHILIP T. M. Its funny but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take... NICHOLAS SPARKS Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the tim... MARSHA THOMASON We are the kind of group that will keep a smile on each other's faces - no matter what. If you're we... FRED THOMAS After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any c... JHONEN VASQUEZ How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's ... LES DAWSON I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny ... HANS FALLADA There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny. KATE MCKINNON Funny is funny is funny. BOB NEWHART The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... STEPHEN COLBERT Its funny how sometimes people think they are in a position to dictate one's life. OLASOT All saints are gonna be there? Tre, you might get laid! BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG It is sometimes funny to watch some people doing something the wrong way but doing it confidently. E... TOBA BETA Sin is a funny thing. We can't conquer it, we can't see it. But is is still there, and we carry it o... JOSHUA CLARKE I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le... LARRY DAVID Its overwhelming, ... Its funny. You never put a price tag on yourself, so I didn't think it would g... EVA LONGORIA Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remai... SETH MACFARLANE Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, whic... CAROL BURNETT To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong! CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! MARIAH CAREY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages. CASEY WILSON I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of o... SUSAN KELECHI WATSON There were a bunch of really funny [mascot ideas[, but they would not pass through the Board of Mana... HEIDI FIESELMANN If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not f... CALVIN TRILLIN It's kind of like a crazy comedy. And funny from the standpoint that there are so many different cha... PAUL MOORE Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do whatever you want but don't forget your roots. Its funny because if you remember your roots at al... NERISSA IRVING The things that are truly funny were never really intended to be funny at all. JESSICA KENNEDY This is quite common with Carry on films. It's not too bad if you're out of camera; you can stuff a ... JOAN SIMS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Monopoly is business at the end of its journey HENRY DEMAREST LLOYD I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That'... ERIC IDLE My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER Whoever came up with the term “Funny Bone” must have been a masochist, because hitting it is not... GARY HOPKINS It's not a double standard because it's the right of every culture to have its own taboos. ROGER KOPPEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I nannied for a couple of months. The kids were super-funny; it made me wish I grew up in a comedy h... NIKKI GLASER I find it amazingly truthful and honest and funny, because it is so spot-on in its relationships bet... ANITA STEWART If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. ALAN KING I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually t... TODD BARRY Snoop Dogg is hilarious. T.I. is really funny. Who else? 50 Cent is hilarious. Jay-Z is funny. I'... JAY PHAROAH Its funny, how we run away from sickness. Sickness should run away from us. JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it... BRUCE MCCULLOCH That's something that at the end of the day, I know even if I make everyone angry and say things tha... JOHNNY WEIR They were not merely quipsters and storytellers, nor were they only song and dance entertainers. The... STANLEY GREEN We're always making fun of him, but the funny thing is there are 24- and 25-year-old guys trying to ... CORTEZ HANKTON The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy. STEVE COOGAN We were trying to make a movie that was funny, but also trying to be smart about being funny. We jus... ANDY BADER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy an... ROBERT KLEIN Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny. DOUG STANHOPE There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction. VAL MCDERMID The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious. UZO ADUBA I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolst... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. LIONEL SHRIVER One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny. GERARD WAY I think people will be rolling in the aisles. It's bizarre and fast and even if you've never seen th... JIM MITCHELL There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are. VANESSA BAYER Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, b... BOB SAGET A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be ove... JENNIFER LOPEZ Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in th... JULIE BROWN It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in. BRYAN ADAMS It's sometimes funny to watch some people doing something the wrong way but doing it confident... TOBA BETA I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not ... BILL COSBY The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly fu... EDWARD ALBEE This is Cunis at the Vauxhall End. Cunis - a funny sort of name. Neither one thing nor the other. ALAN GIBSON Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysteric... BOB NEWHART
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