You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.
The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.
The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.
I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.
I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.
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