I have had people come up to me in the street – one woman actually told me she hated my accent, she can’t believe I’m on the telly and my accent is so annoying. I ended up laughing because I thought, ‘this person doesn’t know me but she felt she could come up and slate my accent.’
It’s fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.
The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it’s very helpful. If they’re not laughing and they don’t say that they loved it, then I have screwed up.
The important thing, once you get ’em laughing, is to keep ’em laughing until you’re through. With a 90-minute feature, you’ve got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
When I think about filming ‘Lady Bird,’ I think about, dancing, eating, and laughing, which are three of my favorite things, so it’s great.
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.
I’ve seen a lot of pairs of guys that have been hanging out together way too long-until they’re laughing all the time.
Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
On the first training session Pogba had with Juventus, the players were laughing. We were not laughing for any other reason than we were just in total disbelief that this player with so much obvious ability was able to leave the club the size of Manchester United for free – and I think Juventus are still laughing.
Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it’s not always that easy.
When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.
I think if you’ve got people on your side, if you’ve got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.
The thing I most hate about the Left is that they want to stop us laughing – to prescribe which jokes are OK and which are not OK to make in public and to draw artificial lines around certain subjects. I find all sorts of inappropriate things funny.
The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you hear people laughing and you’re not, you start to question if maybe there’s something wrong with you for not getting it.
Some people thought I wasn’t taking the sport seriously because I was always laughing and having fun, but I loved my skiing, I loved my jumping, and I thought, ‘Well, why not have a smile on my face when I’m doing something that I really, really love doing,’ and that’s how I was.
I know it’s working when I’m writing a book if I’m laughing or crying.
There are so many people that have come up to me during our shows and tell me: ‘The hour that we are watching your show is the hour that my kids are happiest and are smiling, they are laughing,’ and that is what I long to do.
In ‘Malvolio,’ the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.
I liked making people laugh. I remember that specifically, being really young and having my parents being in the audience and laughing. It wasn’t really a ‘Oh, I’m the center of attention’ feeling; it was more ‘Oh, I’m making them so happy right now’ feeling. I liked that.
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn’t even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
Have you ever noticed when people stop laughing, they say, ‘Oh dear?’
In theater, one of the biggest problems when you’re rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.
I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it’s just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don’t quite believe that.
I’ll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, ‘Don’t be a tape player hater,’ in ‘Country Man,’ I don’t think I ever laughed harder. We didn’t know where we were gonna put that in a song, but we knew we had to make it into a song. I just remember laughing and being so proud of such a goofy little line.
I’m always teasing and clowning around and laughing and in the locker room I tend to always have something to say.
‘Irumbu Kottai…’ is an action comedy. Even the villain, after beating up people, will keep laughing.
I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.
If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you’re laughing one minute and, you know, somebody’s doing something quite horrific the next minute, it’s a little more shocking.
I’m not the comedy police, but you watch a movie, and everyone’s laughing, and then you shake it out, and you realize, ‘There’s no joke there!’
I remember watching ‘The Muppet Show’ in the ’70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we’re all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things.
I can’t be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.
It’s easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children’s grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.
If I can bring you to the point where you’re almost in tears one minute and laughing so hard the next and you’ve healed a bit at the same time, that’s when I get to use the gift I was given.
In my comedy, I’m not always trying to say something, but when I’m playing a creepy dude, you’re laughing because you know that creepy dude. You’ve heard that dude say something awful, and I’m just putting a little creative spin on it.
If people are laughing at you, you might as well be in on the joke.
Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents… but he continually had physical accidents… he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing.
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.
The only way to silence a room that’s laughing at you is to sort of take over.
In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
We have to get women’s stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, ‘I’m not laughing at a chick story but a story.’
Anti-depressants helped me get up in the morning and stopped me from being sad, but what they also do is stop you from being happy. So I was just in this numb state. I stopped laughing at jokes, and that’s just not me.
In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible… When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I’ve done it.
Once, during one of the jubilee tours, I was in the car immediately behind theirs and I watched Prince Philip telling the Queen a story. He kept her laughing for 20 minutes.
And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I’ve done it.
I suppose some studio executive would say it’s death for a comedy if people aren’t all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can’t control it.
Sometimes, I can be crying my eyes out, wanting to die, and then I’ll walk by a mirror and see myself and just bust out laughing.
When I was a kid I went and saw Bill Cosby with my dad, and I remember sitting there and laughing so hard.
I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, ‘Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.’ I thought, ‘Who cares? As long as they’re laughing.’
When you’re laughing aloud at David Sedaris’ every sentence, it’s easy to miss the more serious side of what he’s up to.
I am a complete sucker for funny films. There is something so therapeutic about laughing until you cry.
Laughing brains are more absorbent.
This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.
If you think the Obama White House and Ben Rhodes lying to the American people about Iran – and laughing about it – was bad, just wait until Hillary Clinton’s spin doctors get hold of the media.
