Quotes About Laughter

I remember seeing Letterman do stand-up on 'The Tonight Show.' Or, it's probably more accurate to say, I remember hearing him do stand-up, because the Carson show existed mainly as sound leaking under my bedroom door at night. I'd hear Johnny telling jokes and my dad laughing at them.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

Claudia Winkleman is a good laugh and James Corden too.

I think too many people take life too seriously. I'm having a ball!

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it.

When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of it through laughter is a pretty powerful tool.

Being able to make people laugh is a powerful tool.

I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.

I think Carrot Top is hilarious.

I used to write jokes with friends. We'd pick a topic and then think out loud, brainstorm.

You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not mocking the things that shouldn't be mocked.

I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.

I mean, the number one goal is to make people laugh, that's definitely the first aim; but aside from that, when we discuss which topics to talk about, the second goal is to try and make a point about it.

There are very few topics where I can imagine that you might not find humor. And I was stunned at how much weird and dark humor there was when my mom died.

Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who've gone through personal torment.

I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.

I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self.

There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

My very first memory of being alive is being tossed in the air by my father and laughing and knowing, really knowing, that his was absolute joy.