“People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.” PeopleWantTryingLooksIdeasSoundWatchesLaughingEventsTvsSittingTablesFolksCurrentsDrawingSillyShallowCartoonStimulusSitting DownCurrent EventsDeep Meaning Author:Gary Larson
“There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.” PeopleIfsWantKindLaughingEventsLaughterJokesCharityBiddingAuctions Author:William McIlvanney
“I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.” PeopleKindSometimesFeelingsAbleLaughingSeaEventsWeaponsLaughterMedicinePerformingShockStunnedCatharsis Author:Robin Williams
“Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.” SeemsSexSidesRoomsLaughingWonderfulEventsEatingStandingNotesDrinkingJournalistMarvelousHaving Sex Book:Wallflower at the Orgy Source: Wallflower at the Orgy
“I wasn't a great improviser when I started there; I'm not really up on current events. I would always just mug, just try to get my laughs from making faces. So I decided to do a character who should never have become a comic - somebody you would see at the Comedy Store and go, "This person is never going to make it."” ShouldTryingPersonsCharacterFacesLaughingComedyEventsDecidedCurrentsStoresComicMugCurrent Events Author:Paul Reubens