Quotes About Laughter

Standup comedy was my weird hobby. I would drag my poor parents out to the only open mics that were in coffee shops instead of bars. I'd get up and go, 'Hi, I'm 17, and I have jokes about matriculation!' At the time I was like, 'Why is no one laughing?'

I still do standup.

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.