Quotes About Laughter

Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.

The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.

I think the only way we can really get you to laugh hard is if we take it to a deep psychological place. It has to resonate with you on a really deep level in order for you to really do that good guffaw.

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

A pub can be a magical place.

I am much more happy in a country pub with 10 blokes having a pint than going to a night club.

All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.

Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.

Everyone knows the feeling where you're in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It's awesome, you feel like you rock. That's what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.

Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

I personally do not find puke funny. I find it disgusting.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

No matter what the situation, I try to have fun. I get pulled over by the police, I'm like, 'Oh, this going to be the best arrest ever.' And I end up making friends with these police officers.

Pulled pork jokes never get old.

I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.