“Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.” PeopleHoursLevelsLaughingRocksWorshipGet UpRock N RollMaking People LaughWorship Music Author:Greg Behrendt
“I love watching people get hit in the crotch. But only if they get back up. If their teeth are bleeding, if they're really hurt, if an ambulance has to come, I'm not laughing.” PeopleIfsHurtLaughingTeethGet BackBleedingAmbulance Author:Bob Saget
“I've always liked the fact that I could make people laugh at crazy stuff that has happened to me. If it makes you feel better at me falling down the stairs...then I'm going to do it.” PeopleIfsFeelsFactsFallStuffLaughingHappenedCrazyFeel BetterFalling DownStairsMaking People Laugh Author:Sherri Shepherd
“With me being in so many pain from when you have a betrayal from your best friend - who was my husband - and the girl got pregnant, I couldn't even get out of bed. The only thing that saved me was my stand-up. I would get on stage and just talk about stuff, and I made people laugh. A lot of women e-mail me and say, 'How do you smile? How do you laugh at something like this?' That's how I do it. I laugh because that's how I get through pain.” PeopleMadePainGirlStuffLaughingStageBedHusbandBetrayalSavedMy HusbandMailPregnantYour Best Friend Author:Sherri Shepherd
“Thank you people that are laughing with your hand away from your mouth. That joke is clearly not for everyone, but I enjoy watching people that don't laugh make the people that do laugh feel shitty about themselves.” PeopleFeelsHandsEnjoyLaughingJokesMouths Author:Daniel Tosh
“I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the best people out there, who bring the best out of me.” PeopleWantMeanLaughingPiecesCryPeriodsMaking People Laugh Author:Chris Tucker
“When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.” PeopleKnowsMindWellsStillsHomeArtistCoursesPartyCareersLaughingPiecesGroupsTeamChangedResponseBlowListsShouldersStayingComing HomeKnow MeGroundedMy Best FriendGroup Of Friends Author:Adele
“Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in common. My whole life, all I ever wanted was my dad to pat me on the top of the head and go, Who's a good boy ? Who's a good boy? But, instead, all he ever did was wipe peanut butter on the end of my nose and laugh while I tried to lick it off.” PeopleWantEndsWholeWantedCommonBoysLaughingAcceptanceDadNormalMy DadAcceptedWhole LifeNosesWipePeanutsScrewed UpPeanut ButterGood Boy Author:Christopher Titus
“Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.” PeopleHateLaughingComedyMake You LaughPeople You Hate Author:Brian Posehn
“From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsAgeLaughingMonthsNeededSixConsciousNineShellsSix MonthsMaking People LaughNine Months Author:Arj Barker
“The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.” PeopleIfsWritingDifferentHardWould BeArtistGuyLaughingGroupsCollegeGeniusPaperPerformancesHonestlyPapersJackassesBards Author:Louis C. K.
“It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did.” PeopleFirstsTogetherAmericaUsedNightStuffLaughingFireFrontsComedianGutsSpeakersEvery NightAbrahamPubsOld Things Author:Louis C. K.
“I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I said, I wanna be a comedian, I wanna get good.' You're not good in the beginning. You're still trying to figure out what the things are that you are going to talk about, what your angle is going to be and there's a lot of trial and error. I just never gave up and that was the beginning of my career. Just experimenting, trying it out and falling in love with it.” PeopleThinkingTryingSaidStillsFallFoundCareersLaughingFiguresCollegeSeriousErrorsFalling In LoveTrialsEnjoyedComedianAngleGave UpMaking People LaughMake Me HappyTrial And Error Author:Bill Bellamy
“My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksI CanGuyLaughingCreativeRichBrotherEasierTaxesStrangerSpendingProfessionSavingMy BrotherComponentsRich PeopleSaving MoneyManageableLife Saving Author:Gary Gulman
“I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.” PeopleEndsHurtSituationLaughingProductsLaughterJokesCancerRidiculousMake SenseComedianStomachCheeksMaking People Laugh Author:Carlos Mencia
“Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.” PeopleBelievePersonsFallAnswersLaughingFalling In LoveDon't BelieveLaugh At YourselfRespect Women Author:Greg Proops
“Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in front of a mirror and never go to a club. We are giving this away. Some people are going through so much in their lives, they want to hear something else that's going on in the world and laugh.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantGivingWantedLaughingFrontsMirrorsClubsHonestlyComedianTherapists Author:J. B. Smoove
“My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.” PeopleJoyMotherLaughingMaking People Laugh Author:Melissa Rivers
“I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveLooksI BelieveEasySimpleLaughingTakenOrdinaryPhotographerPhotographTouchedOrdinary PeopleWince Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
“Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.” PeoplePersonsI CanSometimesEnoughBodyEyeFacesCan DoWatchesSupportLaughingSeeingObjectsDoctorsPhotographerLawyerSingersComedianPriestsScholarNever ChangeMaking People LaughPassengersWagers Author:Shomei Tomatsu
“Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians, French, Americans. Tourists from everywhere. Eating, drinking, talking, laughing. And from Bombay - Indians and Iranians and Afghans and Arabs and Africans. But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamic for their place, and their time, and the lives of thousand of people? I will tell you - four. Four people in this room with power, and the rest are like the rest of the people everywhere: powerless, sleepers in the dream.” PeopleLooksRealDreamRoomsTalkingDestinyLaughingFourThousandEatingLet MeDrinkingGreekSixtyPowerlessEightyTouristsReal PowerSleepersBombay Author:Gregory David Roberts
“That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons.” PeopleMadeMovingAudienceLaughingRidiculousSignaturesBuffoonsRidiculous Things Author:Ann Coulter
“You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a genuine smile, those are the people who have fought the toughest battles. Because they've decided that they're not going to let anything hold them down, they're showing the world who's boss. One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.” PeopleWorldHurtLaughingBattleDecidedTransformationPreparedWaveGenuineEndlessHardestBossStrongestBe PreparedGenuine Smiles Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.” PeopleSituationLaughingWorstCryFuneralBreaking DownMake Me Laugh Author:Tom Waits
“All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least a couple of good laughs in every day.” PeopleFunParentLaughingCoupleMy FriendsWittyGood LaughFunny WittyFun Loving Author:Toks Olagundoye
“I stand behind what I say. If I don't want it to be out there then I won't say it. I am not out to hurt somebody. I am out to call attention to certain things but I am also out to make people laugh with my delivery and style of bluntness.” PeopleIfsWantCertainHurtBehindsAttentionLaughingStyleMaking People LaughDeliveryBluntness Author:Michelle Visage
“Michael Jordan was blessed by God to play basketball and Roger Brown was the closet person to him I ever saw. I don't say that lightly. Roger was phenomenal. There was nothing he couldn't do. He was so quick he would trick people blind - I even saw him miss layups because he was laughing so hard at what he had just done to someone.” PeoplePersonsHardDonePlayLaughingSawsMissingBasketballBlessedBlindTricksBrownClosetsJordanRogerPhenomenalLaughing So Hard Author:Mel Daniels
“It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the film together, I was only interested in what it was like in movies.” PeopleTogetherFilmHeavenLaughingNotionCome UpMythologyInnocentSecureAmazedAmerican LifeDisinterested Author:Todd Haynes
“I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.” PeopleThinkingLaughingStupidMaking People LaughLove Making Author:Brian Littrell
“I love truthful songs that tell a story and talk about people and their lives. If a song calls for a tear, then we will cry. If a song calls for a smile, then we will laugh. That is what I like to do.” PeopleIfsStoriesSongLaughingCryTearsTruthfulTruth Love Author:Gene Watson
“It's better to make people laugh than cry.” PeopleLaughingCryMaking People Laugh Author:Ronnie Barker
“Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.” PeopleThinkingImportantPayAttentionTalkingLaughingComedyConversationStartingPay AttentionBeing YourselfStarting Out Author:Natasha Leggero
“I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.” PeopleI CanLaughingTelling The Truth Author:Kevin Hart
“I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.” PeopleLaughingMaking People LaughLove Making Author:Kevin Hart
“I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.” PeopleWayFeelsKidsJobsLaughingStageTreatsStoresBest ThingsComing OutCandyMaking People LaughCandy Stores Author:Kevin Hart
“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” PeopleTwoSoulBodyLaughingLaughterDistanceLaughedSoapLaughs And SmilesSmile And LaughterLaughter And SmilesHumor And LaughterHumor LaughterHappy LaughterLaughter And JoyInspirational LaughterShort Laugh Author:Victor Borge
“I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.” PeopleUsedStuffVoiceClassLaughingCollegeSkillsClown Author:Steve Coogan
“I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that.” PeopleIfsKnowsLaughingMaking People LaughAnother Woman Author:Sharon Stone
“I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'” PeopleThinkingHumansLooksPersonsStatesMovingLaughingNiceDangerExpectedAdmirePubsNice PersonHave A Laugh Author:Jo Brand
“Joy is as infectious as any disease. When you see a few people dancing, suddenly you feel your feet are ready. You may try to control them, because control has been taught to you, but your body wants to join the dance. Whenever you have an opportunity to laugh, join; whenever you have an opportunity to dance, join; whenever you have an opportunity to sing, sing - and one day you will find you have created your paradise.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingMayHas BeensBodyJoyOpportunityLaughingFeetTaughtReadyOne DayDiseaseDancingYour BodyParadise Author:Rajneesh
“I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.” PeopleCharacterStoriesFeltLaughingAliveCryNeededAngryI RealizedFifteenSixteenSeventeenMaking People Happy Author:Dakota Johnson
“I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRealHandsMistakeLaughingStageThousandReal LifeStaringMicrophonesCockyCockiness Author:Russell Peters
“I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.” PeopleIfsShowsCommunityAudienceLaughingGroupsExampleRacismLaugh At YourselfClams Author:Russell Peters
“What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.” PeopleImportantPassionLaughingInvestmentLoudWhat's Important Author:Dan Harmon
“I laugh when I end up on the worst-dressed lists. I'm not trying to be fashionable. I know I'm kind of a cartoon character. Do people honestly think I'm wearing a kafkan in order to be fashionable?” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingKindEndsCharacterOrderLaughingWorstListsHonestlyCartoonFashionableCartoon Character Author:Pamela Anderson
“Even if a hundred ton boulder should fall, I would be safe! When I say this, everyone laughs and wonders how. No need to try to stop it, just move out of the way. You do not have a problem if you do not try to take it on yourself. Most people suffer because they try to take upon themselves things which they do not need to.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsShouldTryingProblemWould BeMovingSufferingFallWonderLaughingSafeHundredBoulders Author:Koichi Tohei
“I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.” PeopleRealDoneEnoughFactsSeemsWantedLaughingComedyHavensSillyConsidering Author:Tom Hollander
“I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.” PeopleWorldGivingI CanWatchesAudienceLaughingNiceCryTheaterMovedAround The World Author:Jerry Bruckheimer