Laughs Quotes

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway.

So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us.

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

I won't do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can't, it's not gonna make the team.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.