“When you see these fights on TV you see all these celebrities in the front row, so we thought it'd be funny if we called in some of our friends,”

“Nancy Scott was worldly, funny and gritty in her approach to her work, ... She had a fine sense of outrage that gave her writing and her personality great vibrancy.”

“It's funny. I went to a bowling convention and the bowling industry now calls me the 'Mosquito Man.' They even had me speak at a seminar for bowlers on promotional ideas.”

“They're fantastic, ... They're really funny and silly and 'catchy' and obnoxious in the best possible way. They have that wonderful energy and spontaneity that Josh seems to bring to everything. They're PERFECT!”

“I've learned never to underestimate the sense of humor of a kid, ... But does it matter if the joke flies over a kid's head? No. As long as my girlfriend thinks it's funny, it stays.”

You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're a pain in the ass.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

But Phoebe loved her mother best as she was now, wistful, out-of-step, her laugh tinged always with sadness, as if things were only funny in spite of themselves.

It's funny reading about how I behaved in the days before memories formed. So thanks for that input, Mom and Dad - wasn't so bad after all.

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.