#funny

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#comedy #cut #die #fall #finger

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more. ↗

— James Brown

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There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood. ↗

— Julie Brown

#catholic #catholic school #dysfunction #family #funny

As I get older, I just prefer to knit. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#get #i #just #knit #older

Communism is like one big phone company. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

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It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#idea #impersonate #no idea #somebody #them

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#comedians #customers #funny #great #had

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#depth #developed #funny #had #honorable

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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