Quotes About Laughter

I love making puns.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha!

An artist shouldn't be judged by how many people like his art but by how pure and good it is - but I think that when you're telling jokes, which is more what I'm doing, if people aren't laughing, you're telling bad jokes.

You don't really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games.

It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'

There's only a handful of people who are just purely, inherently funny, and I'm not one of them. I need content and a situation. I don't just walk on the screen, and people go, 'Ha ha ha!' There are people like that, and they can do almost anything. It's the Christopher Walken Rule.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

I enjoy doing comedy that is why I pursue it. I believe that life is hard enough already and full of drama so I find things that are funny to use as material.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

That's humour - doing what funny people have done since comedy began without being edgy and pushing boundaries.

You know, comedy and horror are flip sides of the same coin.

Oh, I'm always laughing with the children in 'Supernanny,' but you don't see it because Ricochet decide what to leave on the cutting-room floor and what to keep in.

You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.

Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.

I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.

I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.