“I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.” PeopleLaughingCourtClownMaking People LaughJesterCourt Jester Author:Richard Simmons
“The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.” WellsAbilityLaughingHugeCompromise Author:Steve Carell
“Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.” RealityFoundLaughingHandleComforting Author:Marc Maron
“My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.” PeopleStoriesLaughingAmountConversationMy FavoriteEngagedImmediacy Author:Marc Maron
“When I watch TV I can tell when someone is punching the joke and telling me when to laugh (I’ll decide when to laugh, thank you very much).” I CanWatchesLaughingTvsJokesPunching Author:Nathan Fillion
“Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsTryingFilmLaughingComedyMinutesTheaterThings ChangeAway From YouSlippingSlipping Away Author:Taika Waititi
“I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.” EasyLaughingFind MeAlways Laughing Author:Quentin Tarantino
“There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.” MaySometimesCharacterLinesLaughingLaughterPainfulRecognitionExpensesNeverthelessBlurryWince Author:Todd Solondz
“It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm not yelling at the audience, I'm yelling at the world. It genuinely sucks if people are taking it that way. But I'm not talking to individuals.” PeopleIfsWorldWayDoeIndividualEnjoyDifficultTalkingAudienceLaughingYellingNot TalkingGood Laugh Author:David Cross
“I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it.” TryingWholeKidsUsedStuffParentWatchesLaughingRecordsTroubleBallsBillsRoutineDrankFlipWilsonCarols Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.” WantLittlesHappensGuyBitsAbilityLaughingBandLittle BitPaintCaughtHorribleVillainGet OverCaught UpBad GuysHorrible Things Author:Andy Biersack
“Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube.” HardLife IsLaughingTubesLife Is Hard Author:Joan Rivers
“I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.” PeopleThinkingFeelsImportantMomentsStoriesLaughingTakenSeriousStory People Author:RZA
“That's always disappointed me, to see a guy in the crowd who doesn't look like he's having fun but in general if you just listen to the crowd it sounds like they're having fun. So I don't want to focus on the one guy who's not having fun. And by closing my eyes and just listening, I can't hear that he's not laughing but I can see that he's not laughing.” IfsWantLooksI CanEyeGuyFunSoundLaughingFocusListeningCrowdsHaving FunDisappointedClosingJust ListenClosing My Eyes Author:Mitch Hedberg
“The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.” WayMindHas BeensWholeCareersLaughingI've Learned Author:John Waters
“What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond).” PeopleWritingCharacterShowsLaughingSettingSettingsExecutionEverybody Loves Raymond Author:Joe Rogan
“I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.” MenWould BeRememberFilmMovingUsedLaughingCuttingCatSorryLipsIntenseNoiseElephantsFilm SetElephant Man Author:Anthony Hopkins
“In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and you may laugh at them and get a certain amount of enjoyment. But when you're asleep at night, and you wake up at 3 in the morning, and you're alone in your bed, you know who's really funny.” PeopleKnowsMayAbleNightCertainMorningLaughingGenerationsAmountBedWake UpEnjoymentCosmetics Author:Woody Allen
“I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.” PeopleKnowsDifferentShowsWantedSchoolLaughingPathComedyResistanceDifferent ThingsShow BusinessMaking People LaughPath Of Least Resistance Author:Steve Martin
“As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.” PeopleBelieveKidsLaughingSawsJokesTribesStatus Quo Author:RuPaul
“I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.” LooksPersonsBigsFallLaughingFailingStupidCommitSwingsFalling Down Author:Amy Poehler
“If I think of a joke that's really dirty and I think it's funny I'll try it but what I've found over the years is they just don't laugh. It doesn't work coming out of my mouth so it's like they taught me 'don't do that. Don't go that way or you'll lose me.'” IfsThinkingWayTryingYearsFoundLosesLaughingTaughtJokesMouthsDirtyComing Out Author:Demetri Martin
“With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh it didn't work. And with horror, if you don't get scared or haunted, depending on what it's trying to do, it didn't work. I'm fascinated by those three categories.” IfsTryingHardThreeLaughingHumourHorrorScaredGenderCategoriesFascinatedWetPornography Author:Neil Gaiman
“A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.” ThinkingWayShouldMadeDifferentFallImaginationNovelLaughingTreeRocksHorrorNostalgiaStableAbsurdityFalling ApartHolding OnBourgeoisReactionaries Author:Tony Burgess
“I'm really happy that I've been able to make people laugh and distract them from their day to day bullshit at a comedy show or because they enjoyed one of my CDs or TV specials, but I don't know how many people have actually had life changing thoughts because of it.” PeopleKnowsShowsAbleLaughingKnow HowComedyTvsEnjoyedLife ChangingBullshitDay To DayCdsMaking People LaughReally HappyComedy Shows Author:Joe Rogan
“I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.” IfsWantGivingTryingHappensBoysLaughingScreensSincereHypocriteEntertainersPhony Author:Johnny Carson
“The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.” PeopleIfsLightDarkLaughingComedyOne ThingAreasComedianClassicTaboo Author:Bo Burnham
“If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.” IfsThinkingLaughingWorstLaughedWorst Times Author:Bo Burnham
“My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."” LaughingMusic IsWittyProgressionMake You LaughPunchlines Author:Mike Stud
“My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my buddies laugh.” LaughingJokesWittyBuddyPunchlines Author:Mike Stud
“So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWholeBigsAbleTogetherYoungSexCasesLaughingCry Author:Don Rickles
“One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.” MenReligionLaughingAtheismCleverTheologyOne ManIronicBellyAnother ManAnti ReligiousBelly Laughs Book:Time Enough for Love Source: Time Enough for Love
“I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should be laughing.” ShouldHumorFunnyLinesLaughingSmokePipeIndicators Author:Mitch Hedberg
“There's a guy in the audience with a distinctive laugh. I hope that guy is miked. The only problem with having a distinctive laugh is I know exactly when that guy isn't laughing. "Oh, distinctive laugh doesn't think that joke was funny!"” ThinkingKnowsProblemHumorFunnyGuyAudienceLaughingJokesThat GuyDistinctive Author:Mitch Hedberg
“If I was a locksmith, I'd be pimping that out man. I'll trade you a free key duplication for. That joke made me laugh before I could finish it, which is good, because it had no ending.” IfsMenMadeHumorFunnyLaughingKeysJokesTradeDuplicationPimping Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I don't ever see movies by myself. I always see them with other people because I want to know what works. I want to know where they laugh. I want to know where they don't laugh. I want to know what they think about it afterwards because in the end that's what the art that I'm working with is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantArtEndsLaughing Author:George Lucas
“Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingDifferentCertainFallActorsDifficultLaughingComedyKeysDramaNotesResponseRhythmInstantGet AwayFlatsSensibilityOrchestraGood WritingGreat ActorsComedicMake Someone Laugh Author:Aimee Garcia
“I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs in twenty minutes, and walked out feeling more elated than I had ever felt in my entire life. The glory of that triumph contented me for two full years.” IfsYearsSaidTwoFeelingsNextFeltBreakLaughingMinutesMusicianGloryTwentiesTriumphIf I Could Author:Emo Philips
“I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.” GivingBelieveHeartLittlesReasonTurnsLeftI BelieveLaughingCryReaderMy HeartPromisePagesPlentyLoudThings To DoContractsSwearDeliveringMake You LaughStovesLaugh Out Loud Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I had always been able to make people laugh in school, so I really developed that and worked on it and I got pretty good at it and it turned into a career.” PeopleAbleSchoolCareersLaughingMaking People Laugh Author:Andy Andrews
“For about three years I was performing at one bar in East Los Angeles that was like a mean dive bar. You're in there performing for drunks or bikers, not the most flattering people. I think it helped build my confidence, because you have to get their attention, then make them laugh.” PeopleThinkingYearsMeanThreeAttentionLaughingEastBarsPerformingLos AngelesThree YearsFlatteringBikers Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh.” ThinkingSometimesHelpingAudienceLaughingComedyFrontsSceneCriticalUber Author:John Cena
“You learn to laugh at yourself and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.” KindSelfFacesStuffLinesLaughingComedyNeededCrossesEdgesComedianCrutchesLaugh At YourselfSelf DeprecatingLearn To Laugh At Yourself Author:John Cena
“Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.” PersonsLaughingComicComedianMake Me LaughYou Make Me Laugh Author:Dick Gregory
“I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.” PeopleThinkingLaughingJokesMaking People LaughHumorists Author:Dick Gregory
“I ALWAYS HAVE DONE WELL HOWEVER IN BLUE STATES AND RED STATES. IVE NEVER REALLY ALIGNED MYSELF WITH ALL THAT RED STATE BLUE STATE DR. SUESS CRAP BECAUSE WERE ALL AMERICANS AND WE ALL LIKE TO LAUGH.” WellsStatesDoneLaughingRedBlueCrapDrs Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“I LOVE WAL-MART. I CONSIDER MY JOKES TO BE VERY JEUVINILLE. STUFF A 14 YEAR OLD WOULD LAUGH AT BECAUSE THATS THE SENCE OF HUMOR I HAVE. ALL THE STUFF I TALK ABOUT MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR CHURCH GROUPS HOWEVER WAL-MART AINT SUNDAY SCHOOL. AS LONG AS I DIDNT USE OFFENSIVE FOUL LANGUAGE I KNEW ID BE FINE. WAL-MART GETS IT, THATS WHY THEY BLOW AWAY THE COMPETITION. BESIDES ITS THERE STORE THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. THATS AMERICA BABY!” WantYearsMayLongUseSchoolAmericaLanguageStuffCan DoChurchLaughingGroupsBabyFineJokesCompetitionBlowStoresAppropriateSundayOffensiveFoulSunday SchoolFoul Language Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“Quantum entanglement allows you to send information faster than light, which upset Einstein. But Einstein has the last laugh. The information you send on quantum entanglement is random, useless information. So Einsein still has the last laugh.” StillsLightLastsLaughingInformationFasterUselessUpsetQuantumEntanglementUseless Information Author:Michio Kaku
“I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now and then to keep people on their toes.” PeopleWholeLaughingShockThrowingNow And ThenToesFastballs Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“Amy [Schumer] and I each have our cross to bear when it comes to tattoos. Amy and I are funny when we fight. It just keeps escalating until one of us starts laughing. Then it's over. I'm happy that we're friends.” FightingLaughingBearsCrossesTattooAmyEscalatingCrosses To Bear Author:Anthony Jeselnik