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“To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.”

People Laughing Environment Comedy Satisfying

Author:Griffin Dunne

“We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.”

Stories Wanted Laughing

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.”

Laughing Dignity Whimsy

Author:Robert Mankoff

“Emily [Blunt] is such a giggler, she has such a positive life force about her and she's so giggly in a naughty sort of schoolgirl way that it kind of brings out the worst in you, you just love making her laugh. And also Nick Stoller has one of the best laughs. It's so infectious and whenever he laughs at something you do, it's like giving us a reward.”

Way Giving Kind Force Laughing Worst Rewards Positive Life Naughty Blunt Love Making Emily

Author:Jacki Weaver

“I'm always happy to pitch in and do something. Everybody needs to be laughing a little.”

Needs Littles Laughing Always Happy

Author:Chelsea Handler

“Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.”

People Different Country Whole Space Laughing Hundred Aliens Kicks Making People Laugh Snowman Space Aliens Abdominals

Author:Lenny Bruce

“What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.”

Ends Laughing Comedy Therapy Shock Shock Therapy

Author:Lenny Bruce

“Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?”

Ifs Firsts Whole Turns Laughing Depends Sailor Crossings Helm

Author:Emile Chartier

“I love dark humor. I love things that are so grounded in life, but just happen to be just a little bit twisted because my sense of humor is a little bit twisted. I love jokes that shouldn't be funny, but are. Those types of things just really make me laugh.”

Littles Happens Bits Dark Laughing Type Little Bit Jokes Sense Of Humor Grounded Twisted Dark Humor Make Me Laugh

Author:Rockmond Dunbar

“As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.”

People Trying Stories Kids Laughing Dinner Making People Laugh Telling Stories

Author:Wyck Godfrey

“I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.”

Thinking Men Trying White Laughing Middle White Man Middle Aged Make Me Laugh

Author:Chris Bauer

“I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.”

People Persons Laughing Who You Are Bad Things Good Person

Author:Tucker Max

“That (sex) was the most fun I ever had without laughing.”

Fun Sex Laughing

Author:Woody Allen

“In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.”

People Bigs Lying Cities Laughing Pieces Towns Big Cities Idiocy

Author:W. C. Fields

“It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.”

People Ifs Way Suffering Laughing Stupid Jokes Consequence Premature Ejaculation Stupid Jokes

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“Remember that Cosby show where he harrassed the children? Well I put on a little suit and because I am so small they invited me on but nobody was laughing at my jokes. I guess I'm just, too, particularly smart for them.”

Wells Children Littles Shows Remember Laughing Smart Jokes Suits Invited Cosby Show

Author:Thom Yorke

“It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.”

Kids Laughing Died

Author:Paul McCartney

“I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day.”

People Ifs Laughing Upset Surround Make Me Laugh He Makes Me Laugh

Author:Jessie J

“The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.”

Should Littles Home Night Laughing Sun Gone Stupid Jokes Should Have Shining

Author:Sy Safransky

“After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of drums that was ever sold ... 10% should have gone right into their pocket!”

Should Moments Shows Laughing Gone Should Have Guitar Albums Pockets That Moment Ed Sullivan

Author:George Thorogood

“The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.”

Thinking Mind Persons Night Speak Stuff Audience Laughing Every Night Make You Laugh Speak Your Mind Night Vision

Author:Joe Rogan

“You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.”

“Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.”

Thinking Writing Walks Laughing Make Me Laugh

Author:Demetri Martin

“I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.”

Way Made Done Girl Found Laughing Like Me Zone

Author:Demetri Martin

“Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.”

Want Trying Long Situation Laughing Comedy Drama Harder

Author:Nina Dobrev

“The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.”

People Helping Laughing

Author:Mark Batterson

“They say God laughs when you make plans, that's why I make appointments and sometimes reschedule.”

Sometimes Laughing Plans Appointments

Author:Behdad Sami

“I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.”

People Thinking Book Laughing Havens Humorous Delusion Aggressive God Delusion Polarizing

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.”

Way Used Laughing Saws Doors Subjects Weight Size Stuck Chairs

Author:Roscoe Arbuckle

“Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.”

Want Sometimes Parent Laughing Tough Angry Good Parent Good Parenting

Author:Daniel Pearce

“I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.”

Ifs Hands Laughing Minutes Goes On Comic Frustrated Microphones

Author:Michael Caine

“I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.”

People Laughing Cry

Author:Michael Caine

“Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.”

Ifs Want Body Audience Laughing Comedy Jokes Shame Your Body Commit Uncomfortable Ashamed Shy

Author:John C. Reilly

“Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."”

People Ifs Way Mind Kind Laughing Comedy Figures Pure Slave Objectives Making People Laugh Exhausting

Author:John C. Reilly

“Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.”

Laughing Special Ignorance Combination Prose Entertaining Good Laugh Pretentiousness

Author:Richard Mitchell

“Last night the Taliban offered to release eight Westerners if the U.S. promised not to attack. The State Department declined but thanked the Taliban for the offer, saying it really felt good to laugh again.”

Ifs States Lasts Night Felt Laughing Offers Eight Release Department Last Night Taliban Westerners

Author:Tina Fey

“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.”

People Way Mind Eye Age Black White Boys Laughing Week Broken Mouths Corners Newspapers Magazines Evening His Eyes Get Back Gang Twisted Of My Mind Swollen Emmett Till

Author:Muhammad Ali

“A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.”

Men Way Looks Realizing Laughing Passports

Author:Phyllis Diller

“I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.”

Firsts Mother Laughing Baby Contests

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Suppose I could shoot myself in the mouth, but what if I miss? People will laugh at me.”

People Ifs Laughing Missing Mouths What If

Author:George Carlin

“Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.”

Audience Laughing Comedian

Author:George Carlin

“If we go down in flames, we will be laughing on the way down, believe me.”

Ifs Way Believe Laughing Flames Believe In Me

Author:Jay Leno

“I'm often asked, "What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [The Tonight Show]?" I really don't have just one. The times I enjoyed the most were the spontaneous, unplanned segments that just happened, like Ed Ames' infamous "Tomahawk Toss" that produced one of the longest laughs in television history. When these lucky moments happen, you just go with them and enjoy the experience and high of the moment.”

Years Moments Shows Happens Enjoy Laughing Happened Television Lucky Enjoyed Just One Tonight Spontaneous Toss Your Favorite Infamous

Author:Johnny Carson

“The only reaction that frightens me is people not laughing. It's extraordinary to me when you get a laugh. That you can go in front of a bunch of people you never met before, you can say some stuff and they all laugh in unison - that's amazing. It's a miracle.”

People Stuff Laughing Fronts Mets Miracle Extraordinary Reactions Bunch Unison

Author:Chris Rock

“I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.”

People Happens Remember Laughing Serious Argument Mad Passionate

Author:Chris Rock

“I don't write jokes first. I write down topics. I think of what I want to talk about, and then I write the jokes - they don't write me... And even if you don't think it's funny, you won't think it's boring. You might disagree, but you'll listen. And maybe even laugh as you disagree.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Firsts Might Laughing Jokes Boring Disagree Topics

Author:Chris Rock

“Well, anybody can be a straight man if he hears well. You just have to wait for laughs. A straight man just repeats the questions and the comedian gets the laughs and you just wait for them and don't let them die completely at the tail end of the laugh.”

Ifs Men Wells Ends Dies Waiting Laughing Comedian Repeats Tails

Author:George Burns

“I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.”

Men Years Said Helping Force Waiting Laughing Habit Fellows Repeats Fishing Overboard

Author:George Burns

“Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!”

Needs Faces Sleep Laughing Need Sleep

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.”

Years Stills Past Millions Laughing Jokes Bob Employed Over The Past Make Me Laugh Gags

Author:Eddie Murphy

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