Stephen Merchant: John Cleese was a big hero of mine....

Quote	John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.' Copy
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Quote: Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
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Author:
Ellen DeGeneres
Category:
Funny

Most comedy is based...

Quote: Unless someone wants to look funny, I'll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I'm thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.
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Author:
Virat Kohli
Category:
Funny

Unless someone wants to...

Quote: It's funny: I can never sleep between shows; I think it's because I don't like to switch the motor off. I'll probably have some chicken or pasta, though never the two together, and maybe go out for a quick wander around.
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Author:
Richard McCabe
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Funny

It's funny: I can...

Quote: It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.
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Author:
Reba McEntire
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Funny

It's funny how many...

Quote: I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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Author:
Calvin Trillin
Category:
Funny

I actually think of...

Quote: I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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I consider that a...

Quote: I'm quite sarcastic, and I'm funny, but not kind of funny. It's a weird funny, and some people don't get me, and some people do.
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Millie Bobby Brown
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I'm quite sarcastic, and...

Quote: I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Author:
Imelda Marcos
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I did not have...

Quote: The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.
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Author:
Lele Pons
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The inspiration for my...

Quote: I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?
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Author:
Lisa Edelstein
Category:
Funny

I think it's really...

Quote: So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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Author:
Christina Aguilera
Category:
Funny

So, where's the Cannes...

Quote: I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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Author:
P. J. O'Rourke
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Funny

I like Michael Moore,...

Quote: It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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Author:
Tanya Tucker
Category:
Funny

It's so funny because...

Quote: Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.
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Author:
Shah Rukh Khan
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Funny

Without hurting anybody, we...

Quote: We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
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Author:
Dana Carvey
Category:
Funny

We didn't even think...

Quote: I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.
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Author:
Jay London
Category:
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I recorded my hair...

Quote: I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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Author:
Calvin Coolidge
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Funny

I have never been...

Quote: When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
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Author:
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Funny

When you see things...

Quote: Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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Author:
Steve Martin
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Chaos in the midst...

Quote: But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.
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Author:
Rick Allen
Category:
Funny

But it's funny that...

Quote: It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
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Author:
Stephen Leacock
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Funny

It is to be...

Quote: My eyes are different sizes, my nose is too broad at the bridge and squishes up when I laugh, and my lips are sorta funny when I smile.
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Author:
Terry Farrell
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Funny

My eyes are different...

Quote: Macho does not prove mucho.
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Author:
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Macho does not prove...

Quote: It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Author:
H. L. Mencken
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It is even harder...

Quote: I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
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Author:
George Burns
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I spent a year...

Quote: Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.
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Author:
Sebastian Stan
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Funny

Comedy is only funny...

Quote: No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
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Author:
Ellen DeGeneres
Category:
Funny

No matter how popular...

Quote: My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
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Author:
Joan Cusack
Category:
Funny

My dad was a...

Quote: Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Wine is constant proof...

Quote: It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.
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Mindy Kaling
Category:
Funny

It used to be...

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