Quotes About Laughter

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and my brothers and I love to go to The Mountain Opry when we are home. There is alway an abundance of laughter and joy, and anyone can get up on stage and dance and sing. My family also goes to a candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve. It's such a wonderful way to spend the night before Christmas.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

There's all sorts of terrible things that happen around the world. And comedy's one of those few things where you can discuss those things.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.

Simon Pegg is terribly talented, very funny, such a delicious sense of humour.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

I'm never funnier than when I'm heartbroken or terrified.

Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.

'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.

We must have the right to name our fears and laugh at those who seek to scare us - or risk giving in to terrorists.

For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

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.

Trying to put someone in prison for making a fart joke seemed far more likely to produce more courtroom laughter, more sensational acquittals, and a lot more fart jokes.