You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>