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Laughing Quotes - Page 125

I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.

"Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

"Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

"Not My Job: Jim Gaffigan Takes A Quiz On Gwyneth Paltrow". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 26, 2013.

I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

"Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.74, Macmillan

I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Interview: Jim Carrey". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. April, 2004.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

"Jim C. Hines Brings the Fantasy Funny". Interview With Jeff VanderMeer, www.amazonbookreview.com. March 31, 2008.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.366, Penguin Group

I won't do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can't, it's not gonna make the team.

"The funny side of the street". Interview with Rick Lyman, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.