Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
‘Waterloo’ was probably my favorite. That was enormous fun and we laughed a lot.
I remember, one teacher in Year 11 asked the class what everyone wanted to do when they grow up, and I said, ‘I want to be a professional wrestler.’ The teacher laughed and said to be serious.
I’ve laughed, and I’ve cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.
I have been very lucky – all the jobs I’ve done have been with lovely people. In fact, I’ve been on many where I’ve just laughed uncontrollably the whole time.
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny – an experience I’ve never had in America!
Everybody laughed at me when I said I wanted to make a dance video, but when I said, ‘What would it look like if Joe Strummer made a dance video?’ everybody shut up.
I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
I am a standup comedian who has performed comedy in the Middle East in front of thousands of Muslims. And believe it or not, they laughed at plenty, especially when we poked fun at local culture. The Lebanese loved it when you would make fun of their driving and how, in Lebanon, a red light is just a suggestion to stop.
I can remember being in right field in Yankee Stadium and fans armed with media guides called out my family by their names and said absolutely unrepeatable things. I laughed to myself and it never bothered me.
I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I’ve never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.
I love ‘Safe Men.’ Now it’s getting all this culty kind of – it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.
Life’s too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you’ve laughed too much. To me, that’s a bit warped.
Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, ‘Oh, they laughed, so they get what I’m saying.
There was a period of time during the ‘Jagged Little Pill’ era where I don’t think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.
My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn’t know it.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
