Funny / Carrie Fisher

If my life is not funny, then it is simply true, and that is unacceptable.

• Her epic George Lucas Roast.
  Carrie: <first line> Hi, I'm Mrs. Han Solo and I'm an alcoholic.
• Her appearance on the Graham Norton Show, where she recounts meeting a fan who kept thinking about Princess Leia 'four times a day' to Daisy Ridley's dumbfounded reaction. Carrie then finishes by telling Daisy "See you have that to look forward to!"
  • John Boyega's reaction to the story is also funny.
    John: [blank, Thousand-Yard Stare] Sorry...I just think I threw up in my mouth. [sips water]
• Her answer to a fan's question as to what Leia would have said to Luke if she was the one who found him in The Force Awakens.
  "Where in the Sam Hill have you been?! I've been running this damn rebellion by myself, and you take off and hang out in the woods somewhere, meditating!!!"
• Discussing when she and her mother met Richard Nixon:
  "I said, 'I don't want to meet him, I want him impeached,' and my mother said, 'I will take away your credit cards,' and I said, 'I'm coming.'"
• Think her novels are hilarious? Try the audiobooks. It's one thing to read her words, it's another to hear them come from her mouth, and she reads those words exactly as you'd expect, in the type of sardonic and "high-and-low" voice that has made her a comedic household. The Princess Diarist and Wishful Drinking are but two examples.
• The fact that she noted that she wanted it said that she died "drowning in moonlight, strangled by her own bra". Even when she died she gave the world a good zinger. What a way to go.
  • Best of all, and there's some Hearwarming laced with this, several media outlets obliged.
  • And also, her ashes are in a giant Prozac pill.
• Basically, everything she said about her brief affair with Harrison Ford. Apparently, Mark Hamill was oblivious.
  Hamill: I was so self-involved at that point, they could've been doing it in front of me and I wouldn't have noticed.
• Carrie was apparently so fond of Flipping the Bird that Hamill's heartwarming dream of her after her unfortunate passing had to end with her doing this to him.
• After finding out that Luke and Leia were related, Hamill asked if this made him royalty now. Carrie firmly and loudly proclaimed "NO!!!"
• When Carrie was on Not My Job (on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me), she recounts how her daughter was flirting with Elizabeth Taylor's grandson and had to ask if they were related. (For context, Carrie's father Eddie Fisher cheated on Carrie's mom, Debbie Reynolds, with Taylor.) She had to draw a chart.
  Carrie: Turns out they're related by scandal.
• Supposedly, her fee for doing commentary tracks for the original Star Wars trilogy was a copy of The Star Wars Holiday Special. Which George Lucas provided. She would put it on at the end of parties to drive people out.
• Her account of her ex-husband dying while spending the night.
  Carrie: Not content to die in my house, he died in my bed, so not only did he die in his sleep, he died in mine.

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