Russell Peters Quotes

I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

There just is not one person in my family who is not funny.

I had a very funny family.

My father is sort of the jokester. My dad is still the funniest guy in our family.

I thought I was funny as a kid.

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

I've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl.

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

I was always pretty funny with my friends.

There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it.'

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make people laugh, so writing comedy comes naturally to me.

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.

It's not hard for me to be funny. But it's really hard. I don't think a lot of people are funny. I meet a lot of people, and most of them aren't funny.

As a kid, I had to be funny.

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

People haven't seen me in a comedic setting, but that's who I really am.

My dad makes me hiss with laughter.