Quotes About Laughter

Wit is a comic's defense weapon.

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

You see, the patience of an audience is very short, particularly with a non-entity. You're an intruder, and you must make them laugh within three or four seconds. My poems fit the requirements, and I'm always thinking up new ones.

There are so many different ways of making people laugh and sometimes you sit down to watch something that everyone says is hilarious and within a couple of minutes you realise its comedy that isn't for you.

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

I think I hang out with some pretty witty people, but we're never that funny.

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.

Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

Happy men are not the ones in the pub, laughing. Happy men are at home with their wives and family. There is no one happy in the pub.

If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

I am a complete sucker for funny films. There is something so therapeutic about laughing until you cry.

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

A great benefit of having parents in the same profession is if I do have a terrible audition story, I can call them up, and we can laugh about it because they get it. That's always been a great therapeutic outlet.

Smile, it's free therapy.

We are indulging in therapy involuntarily when we chose to laugh.

Stand-up is good therapy.

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.