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Funny

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I’ve always thought those guys are…

I’ve always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

I think that came out of…

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

I don’t think there has been…

I don’t think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that’s easy to understand, and there’s an actor who will attract them to the theater and it’s a movie that’s funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray – we…

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray – we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn’t think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

Half of the great comedians I’ve…

Half of the great comedians I’ve had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn’t understand why they were funny to anybody.

My vanity is not dead. I…

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won’t cry, but just because it is really funny how much I’ve changed.

I think I have a dark…

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

I have a funny name.

I have a funny name.

If I studied all my life…

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Everything is funny, as long as…

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.