Laugh

I want to make people laugh.

I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

Matt Braunger really makes me laugh, I like that guy a lot.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.

O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul, and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.

What 'SNL' taught me that was useful on 'The Watch' was, only put in bad words if they can get a laugh - there was no need for swear words and beeps in places that weren't necessary. Those beeps should only be in there when they mean something and it's important to the joke.

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh, then, again - I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.

That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

There is not a racist bone in my dad's body. He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.

I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.

My dad played a character on the radio called 'Parkyakarkus.' A Greek-dialect comedian. He did Friars' roasts and wrote material and made people laugh that way. But he wrote his own shows with other writers.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

I love Sam Mendes, but I went to see 'Spectre' with my kid, and the opening scene of the Dia de Muertos party, with this kind of tropical music, in downtown Mexico City, with all these people dancing like it's the Rio de Janeiro carnival... I had to laugh.

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.

I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emotional connections to them, or they make us laugh or reflect some part of ourselves that we want to live in.

Be positive and laugh at everything.

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

I totally have the ability to laugh at myself. I don't think one should take oneself seriously, ever. As long as you are not hurting my sentiments by revealing personal details or talking badly about my family, I'm absolutely fine.

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

Kids don't eat fast. They take their time, they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoying, because you're like, 'Come on, it's bedtime!' But try it: You'll fill up before you know it, because it takes 20 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is full.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

I surround myself with people who make me laugh.

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

I'm definitely one of those chicks who want to be in a relationship. I need somebody who can make me laugh and entertain me.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.

I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false.

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.

I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.

I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.

At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

I just like to make people laugh.

I want to be able to make people laugh as hard as they possibly can, and I really think they need that.

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

I know it's corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

'Ambulatory' is my favorite word to use because it never gets a laugh.

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.

I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke, people have seen that in me.

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!

It's good to laugh!

With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.

I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label - make me laugh. I want to make you think.

We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.

I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.

For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who doesn't know they're looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously - you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.

It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.

You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward, it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

When you don't understand something, you often laugh.

Fred Willard still makes me laugh.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

There's nothing better than hearing someone laugh.

I always love somebody who makes me laugh, who's fun to be with.

When I say something funny, I don't laugh.

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on, we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

I really love making people laugh.

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

The more time I was spending with the British team, the more of a laugh I was having with them. It's clean, their way of cycling, it's more about what you can produce as an athlete.

I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?

My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.

The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.

Juvenile stuff has always made me laugh. It's what I know.

I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.

Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.

'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world.

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

Honestly, I like someone who is really grounded, super sweet, honest. I need them to have a sense of humor. I need them to laugh at what's funny, I need them to get jokes and be funny and be witty and sarcastic.

There's an old adage about speakers: You won't remember what they said, but you'll never forget how they made you feel. Trump knows that in his bones. He gives his supporters - and they are growing - a terrific feeling of safety and security, along with a laugh and a smile.

The thing I do best is laugh.

I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

I never have actually had a girl who's made me laugh before.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

We are not here to laugh.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.

When I was working with Barry Sonnenfeld, I'd watch him set up a shot and talk to him about what he was seeing and what it was to shoot comedy. He told me that a lot of times with comedy, it's not just about getting the joke, but getting a reaction to the joke. That's the laugh - it's somebody's else's reaction to the joke.

I laugh a lot and count my blessings.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.

For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.