If it's inappropriate to write about if there's nothing funny about it then it's not funny.

If you think something's funny go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67 and he's still as funny as he's ever been and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good because I feel like if I stick around long enough I'll still be able to work.

To me what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Also in a funny way if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was just standing there talking.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet at the end of a long weekend with them the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

It's a real primal thing watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny I have to get ticked off about something.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

But if something funny happens I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

There are so many funny women in the world and there has been for so many years so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male ' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest ' humor is the only thing that is dead.

It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls I always have something in common and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

I have an inability to enjoy things but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy we wouldn't be funny I guess.

I love a smart well-written show and '30 Rock ' well you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan ' their show-within-the-show.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

And at the time it is funny how you can look at something and say for example with my shoulder injury when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

But I think Kiss Kiss Bang Bang really got that thing where if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.