Quotes about Funny Stories

I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood. Votes: 4

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories. Votes: 4

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place. Votes: 3

Mostly good is enough. Mostly good produces healthy kids who know they are valued and either forget the other parts or turn them into funny stories. Votes: 3

I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off. Votes: 3

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories. Votes: 3

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories. Votes: 3

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. Votes: 3

I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two. Votes: 3

I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably. Votes: 3

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love. Votes: 3

The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag. Votes: 3

I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane. Votes: 3

I wish I had a funny story. Votes: 2

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. Votes: 2

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school. Votes: 2

I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color. Votes: 2

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them. Votes: 2

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad. Votes: 2

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. Votes: 2

I don't think I was anything short of ecstatic when I found out 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' would be premiering in Toronto. Votes: 2

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening. Votes: 2

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny. Votes: 2

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family. Votes: 2

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people. Votes: 2

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff. Votes: 2

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place. Votes: 2

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. Votes: 2

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier. Votes: 2

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too. Votes: 2

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters. Votes: 2

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am. Votes: 0

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. Votes: 0

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs. Votes: 0

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny. Votes: 0

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background. Votes: 0

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies. Votes: 0

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny. Votes: 0

Do you know the Guardians? I asked ZayIs there some kind of club or yearly get-together where Guardians get drunk, wear funny hats, and compare war stories? Votes: 0

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens. Votes: 0