Quotes About Laughter

Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.

From the earliest memories I have, I liked physical, funny things.

Having a sense of humor about yourself is a sign of mental health.

People always mention that they'd love to see me in a comedy again. Maybe it's time - laughter being the best medicine.

Freddie Mercury and I both loved to have a laugh on tour. If there were shenanigans and good times, Fred and I would be there.

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally didn't mean to do that.'

When there's not girls around you have no choice but to mess around with your guy friends, as guys do, so we got into making each other laugh and get each other in trouble and stuff like that at an early age.

I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end of the day everything that I say has a message in it.

Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.

Jennifer Aniston

My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

Mindless films are usually far more entertaining because the audience just comes for a laugh.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see me on television. When I work, I'm always thinking, 'Would my mother find this funny?' The belly-laugh jokes will hit her every time.

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.

Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously...

Das Fürchterliche muss sein Gelächter haben!