It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.
I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.
Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.
I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.
People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.
People always tell me, 'You should do drama. You should do drama.' Even when I first got an agent, they were like, 'We want to send you out to be dramatic.' And I'm like, 'No. I'm a comedian. I'm funny. I want to do funny stuff.'
I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.
I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
