Quotes About Laughter

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

I watch Jimmy Fallon all the time. I think he's hilarious.

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

I have been very lucky - all the jobs I've done have been with lovely people. In fact, I've been on many where I've just laughed uncontrollably the whole time.

I like Johnny Carson because he doesn't hold anything back when he's going for a laugh. Johnny will do anything, say anything, to get his laugh.

I am a big fan of Johnny Lever.

Brian Johnson, AC/DC, singing 'The Hokey Pokey' with him - I'll take that over any other moment.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.

Like all women, I've had a pretty awful time in many ways, but it's always possible to either make a joke or find someone else.

Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

There's no such thing as a hit joke.

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.