Quotes About Laughter

Sometimes I feel like I'm lucky that I can just laugh about it because I know a lot of disabled people who don't because it hurts them. And you leave my show with a different perspective on disability, whether you realize it or not - maybe not better, but a different one!

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

I love Sian Brooke so much; she's hysterical.

I'm a great audience myself. I tried to keep in the background while others were on, but sometimes I'd just get hysterical.

Erinn Hayes is hysterical in person, and I love that.

I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical.

I'm not going to be the one who screams and yells at people, but the one who makes things hysterical.

Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop of laughter - and an icing of trust.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

Dave Chappelle - he's one of my favorite icons. I can't think of anyone who's funnier.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

There arent many more happier moments in life than when youre laughing so trying to make people laugh yourself To do a job where youre trying to make people laugh and youre laughing all day is ideal.

Ideally, I'd love to do a comedy just because, work-wise, it'd be a lot of fun.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

I think I identify as a comedian before kind of anything else. Before I identify as a person, as a human being with empathy.

I like idiotic comedies.

I think it's funny when parents are idiots.

People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read.

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

I grew up with interesting and funny people. We made our own fun. You had to use your imagination.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

One doesn't have to resort to cheap imitations of characters or people around you to make others laugh. At least, that is what I've always believed in.