Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
It’s hard when you’re not a native speaker, because everyone’s laughing, and you’re like, ‘What was that? Can you tell me again?’
I have this recurring nightmare where I’m giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I’m naked. And a shark.
There’s a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with ‘Head Over Boots.’
Comedy is a downward slicing sword sometimes, looking down and laughing at people.
My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.
I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It’s ten people, and you’re together every day laughing your heads off.
Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He’d say a funny joke, and I couldn’t stop laughing, even after they said, ‘Action.’
In fact, I get angry when people laugh at me. I go to the airport and the ground hostess starts laughing at me when she sees me. I get irritated and ask them if I just did some comedy for them to laugh like that. But then I apologise because I know they must have remembered some movie scene that I did.
It’s so important, people laughing.
I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there – writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me – and for some reason people were still laughing.
I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.
My job is trying to make people laugh. A room full of people laughing forget their worries, their issues, that’s why I find it so joyful.
It’s so clear cut with a comedian – you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don’t. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
I really do prioritise humour in people. It’s a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded me was Derek and Clive. That sense of release when I heard them for the first time, crying and laughing, was akin to seeing Sonic Youth for the first time.
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
Every comedian feels out an audience. As you’re telling jokes, if they’re not laughing at this, you change the subject.
Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
When I see people laughing at my jokes, I feel so special. It is much more important than the fame I have achieved.
I’ll always come back to comedy. Doing drama can feel satisfying, but day to day, it’s just not as fun as laughing.
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
I’m very sensitive – I’ll cry during every movie or commercial – but when it comes to my own feelings, I don’t really think about them that much unless I’m making music. Otherwise, I’m either checked out or laughing because that’s how I do regular stuff. I have a hard time talking about my feelings.
I don’t leave a room unless I leave a smile. I want to leave them laughing.
Sometimes, I see the guys driving and they don’t even look at the rim, they just dribble out so it’s as good as a block or even better because I’m kind of laughing when I see that. That’s what it’s about.
I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.
When I started on the London circuit in 1989, nationwide there were about 150 to 200 people that were what you could call alternative comedians – that weren’t club comics. Now, last year when the Laughing Horse chain of clubs held a new acts competition, a thousand people entered. So, there are 800 people more.
I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I’m finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.
I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It’s the worst.
And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.
I like discovering stories where I’m laughing and I’m learning. It’s like, ‘How was I never taught that in school?’
I remember laughing so hard as a kid.
I used to watch all these great fat women in the audience laughing at the comic, and I would think how wonderful it would be to be that man. He was surrounded by pretty girls, he obviously got more money than anyone else, and everyone loved him.
When I was young and it was someone’s birthday, I didn’t have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom’s camera and make a movie parody for whoever’s birthday it was. When I’d show it them, they’d die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.
I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn’t be seen on film – so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I’m smiling and laughing like mad!
Just because you’re laughing, it doesn’t mean the audience will, necessarily.
One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did ‘Men on Film’ on ‘In Living Color,’ gay men wrote in how much they loved it.
Sometimes there’s one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it’s so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.
I make sure I’m smiling every day, I’m laughing every day, no matter how sore or achy I am or whatever.
I’m not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I’ve had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I’ve come out with a smile.
I like being funny; I like laughing with people.
Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
My very first memory of being alive is being tossed in the air by my father and laughing and knowing, really knowing, that his was absolute joy.
Dylan Moran, my favourite comedian, was walking down the street in Edinburgh. I nearly got run over as I sprinted up to him to tell him I was his biggest fan. His stand-up comedy gives me a stitch from laughing.
I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
I’m usually the person laughing to myself on the tube.
I get easily distracted and become a bit of a giddy giggler. I’m not good at taking myself seriously, and laughing at myself helps ease the pressure.
One thing I hate in ethnic comedy is giving the audience the opportunity to laugh in a racist way at a thing. A lot of times dwarf comedians will do that, Arab comics, and gay comics will do it; everyone is laughing, but they’re not laughing at the joke, they’re laughing at this crazy character.
As a comedian, I don’t know if they’re laughing because it’s funny or if they’re laughing at me because I’m not funny. And I’m thinking, ‘Who cares? They’re laughing.’ If you go on stage, and they’re laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
If I’m watching a heavy drama and there’s no moment of people laughing, I always think that’s not realistic.
If you ain’t laughing, you ain’t living, baby.
When you’re really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.
I always have been a guy that’s always smiling, always laughing.
I decided I’d try my hand as a stand-up comedian, as I loved making people laugh, and appeared at the Latitude Festival, won the 2007 Laughing Horse New Act of the Year, and was a nominee for winner of the 2007 So You Think You’re Funny competition.
‘Middlesex’ by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping. And there is a kind of cruelty to it, but you can separate finding something horrible funny, and what you really think of it.
Sarah Silverman. She’s the reason I do comedy. Her DNC speech was my favorite thing I ever heard. Sitting down with her and laughing would be incredible.
People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.
The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I’m not happy because there’s nothing better for me than a world that everybody’s just trying to make each other laugh.
