Laughing Quotes - Page 27

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

It only hurts when I'm not laughing.

Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.

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.

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

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

Your goal is to launch an imperfect product and let people laugh at you.

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.

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down - listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.