My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.
I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares – like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.
He who laughs most, learns best.
Food is the great connector, and laughs are the cement. If we go out to eat and have a nice meal, that’s one thing. If we can share a laugh, now we’re friends.
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
With comedians, you have that understanding that we’re trying to get laughs.
I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn’t doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.
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.
‘Affinity’ is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It’s a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
If it gets laughs, it’s funny.
One night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. No laughs. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name. I got laughs, so I decided to keep it.
If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute – I’ve got to have them.
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 difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Zayn Malik is responsible for countless smiles, countless laughs; he’s saved endless fans’ lives.
James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.
When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.
There’s something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn’t really need much analysis. I’m not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.
I don’t think there’s ever an inappropriate time to laugh! I’m a curious person. So if someone laughs, I want to know why.
I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that’s my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.
When you’re talking about a really horrible personal thing that happened to you… and it doesn’t get laughs… I feel really exposed and like I’ve overshared with some strangers.
Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that’s what I went towards.
When I was a playwright earlier in my career – my senior project in high school was my first produced play – I used to put on the title page: ‘A tragedy with laughs.’
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
We’re not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it’s silent.
I’m glad I did ‘Married… with Children,’ and I liked making all that money, and we all had a lot of laughs.
Alan Bennett is a very quirkish man. He laughs in a self-effacing way, which stops you getting close. If you embrace him, he’ll laugh in an embarrassed way and pull away, not to shrug you off, but because he finds it awkward.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
People don’t understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a script, to put together the story, the characters. When everyone laughs simultaneously, there’s no greater feeling.
I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ it is played for laughs.
I’ve had a wonderful time in ‘Foyle’s War’ and I don’t mind being typecast. But I’m not prim. I’m chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I’d love to do a comedy next, or something modern.
If you look at ‘Avatar,’ could you imagine if you did ‘Avatar’ for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
When I first started, it was a dare. Someone basically said, ‘You’re a tough guy… but I’ll bet you won’t get on a microphone in front of a bunch of people.’ I was terrified, but I did it. Once I broke the ice and got onstage and got some laughs, I thought, ‘That’s not so bad.’
Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh ’cause it’s a defense isn’t it, I suppose.
I just think that the people who say: ‘That’s not true’ when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn’t get any laughs when they told their story.
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
My husband has been very supportive of me, and we’ve shared a lot. Yes! We’ve had a lot of laughs. You have to have them. He makes life fun. That’s important, isn’t it?’
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
‘Hustle’ is wonderfully enjoyable because all my life, I’ve made an effort to be with people who can make me laugh. That original cast – Marc Warren, Jaime Murray, Robert Glenister and Adrian Lester – are all funny. So I know every day I’ll have a few good laughs.
Who laughs less than feminists?
My name don’t ever come up unless it’s light, a joke, laughs behind it. I’m not saying it’s all the way a bad thing, but it’s not great.
Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.
I just always loved stand-up. It’s like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that… I don’t know, it’s just like magic.
Everybody laughs at me because I don’t really wear much make-up. I have to be forced and usually people buy make-up for me because they’re like, this is ridiculous.
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
In this day and age, when no one can agree on anything, I think it’s important that people can come home and turn on the TV and have some good old-fashioned laughs.
Trolls have never bothered me. I am someone who looks at it and laughs.
Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.
Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.
I have had the same shinpads since I was eight or nine years old. Everyone laughs in the dressing room because of them but I am superstitious with that.
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don’t laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that’s not real laughter.
Horror movies feel like comedies when you’re making them because everybody laughs so much.
