Betty White Quotes

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.

I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.