Bronx Quote by Dave Barry

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just…

— Sarah Silverman

I was always a funny person. I thought I would play some good ball, and the Harlem Globetrotters would see me, and that would…

— Sinbad

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny.…

— Kurt Fuller

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

— Martin Short

I grew up in a funny way.

— Gordon Ramsay

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed…

— Wendy Liebman

At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald Margulies, which…

— Ari Graynor

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

— Doug Stanhope

I think the reason I became funny was because if I made people laugh, they would let me keep talking.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

— Marc Maron

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

— George Carlin

I was never funny. I'd be funny once a year at Christmas. I'd do impressions of how people talked and danced, but that stopped…

— Carlos Mencia