Quotes About Laughter

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

I want to try something on situational comedy.

'Band Vaaje' is all-in-all a comedy film. But all comic scenes are situational. The jokes are not just for the sake of punches. The film has proper story which we are sure that audiences will love.

One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I've been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

I think my comedy is about finding the good in bad situations - finding the joy. Why be angry? It doesn't help anything.

Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

I can find the fun in most situations.

It's nice when you are with a guy who can find the humor in touch situations and be comfortable enough in his own skin that he can laugh at himself.

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

All comedians have to use their physicality, so I use my size.

A good sketch show, in my opinion, gets together a bunch of fun, funny people and collects their brainfarts, and shares them.

I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of the shows was picked up by a comedy sketch company... so then I had to write comedy.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.