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Quotes About Laughter

For comics, Edinburgh makes no financial or medical sense. Get an audience; that's the first task. Once the punters are in, simply make them laugh for an hour, and then sweat on the critics.
~ Dominic Holland
I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.
~ Samuel Witwer
Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics.
~ Jeff Ross
I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender. I'm happy to go at anything that has a cause to be laughed at.
~ David Dobkin
There are a lot of girls I've found attractive, but we could never date. If a girl can make me laugh, that's really attractive to me. I have a soft spot for southern girls who are sweet, like Taylor Swift!
~ Spencer Boldman
Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.' I laughed a lot, and the romance got to me.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
Lavatorial humour is just not my cup of tea. But, having said that, I'm really of the mind that comedy is so subjective and whatever makes you laugh makes you laugh. If it doesn't make you laugh, don't watch it.
~ Ruth Jones
You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.
~ Denis Leary
I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.
~ Will Ferrell
One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.
~ Joyce DeWitt
For as much fun as I have out there with my teammates, nothing will ever compare to the joy I get from running around and laughing with my kids.
~ Greg Olsen
All those teams I was on that were successful were the ones that everyone had love for each other and had fun. Things that seem minuscule - joking around, laughing, conversing, all those things that seem childish - that is what builds camaraderie.
~ Karl-Anthony Towns
Rose blanched but complied, earning laughter in return from Dimitri. "Rose Hathaway, notorious rebel, showing her maternal side.
~ Richelle Mead
He drew in on the cigarette and let out the smoke. "Some women think they make me look sexy." "I think you smoke them so you have something to do while thinking up your next witty line." He choked on the smoke, caught between inhaling and laughing.
~ Richelle Mead
I slid my hand to the sash in her robe and discovered she'd tied it with some sort of sailor's knot that only she could undo. "Oh, come on," I groaned. "Sorry," she said, laughing again. "I didn't even think about it. Honest.
~ Richelle Mead
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
~ Richter
of infinite wit and pleasantry
~ Rick Atkinson
I could hear them yell and laugh each time and there was nothing I could do about it…. I saw them do it, like you're shooting gophers. I could hear them: 'Wow, I got one!' Those guys were murderers." Such
~ Rick Atkinson
She and Yoshiko crisscrossed in the water, grinning crazily at each other, spray whipping their feces.
~ Rick Hautala
It actually giggles at you as it goes by.
~ Rick Monday
If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
~ Ricky Gervais
Here lies Ricky Gervais: He had a laugh then found a lump.
~ Ricky Gervais
You can laugh at bad things without being bad people.
~ Ricky Gervais
If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bullet-proof.
~ Ricky Gervais