Being funny Quote by Seth MacFarlane Download Open image “If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.” — Seth MacFarlane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being funny Funny Hard Humor Justify Shocking Something
I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying something they… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are. — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy.… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules. — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it. — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
There's really no hope of anyone turning off the Olympics to watch something on Fox. — Seth Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Absolutely, we were influenced by The Simpsons. We'd be stupid not to be. They put that out there, and we took a cue from… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast doing Cosmos,… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
On a certain day, I will tweet five times, and then I'll go four days without tweeting at all. It really depends on what… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth,… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama. — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
You know, I love airplane food. I'm not being funny; I'm not being ironic. It reminds me of being 12 years old and putting… — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
