Better Quote by Matt Besser

I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a…

— George Cukor

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

— Lucille Ball

You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

— Abe Burrows

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how…

— Christopher Moore

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

— Denis Leary

You can't teach a person to be funny unless you teach him how to swipe someone else's material. To be a success he must…

— Soupy Sales

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

— Ali Farahnakian

You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.

— Jermaine Fowler

Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

— Woody Allen

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

— George Washington Carver

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I…

— Carol Burnett

People are funny in the way that they choose to express themselves.

— Frank Vincent