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I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

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

I'm good at being funny.

I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.