Great teaching – just plain old knock ’em dead, get it right, make ’em laugh, make ’em wonder instruction – is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special. – Robert Krulwich
In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn’t right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls’ school, because I wasn’t very academic. – Olivia Colman
I’m a comic, and I’m supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin’ people laugh is to shake up their thinkin’. That’s what I came here to do. – Roseanne Barr
I’m nuts and I know it. But so long as I make ’em laugh, they ain’t going to lock me up. – Red Skelton
People say I’m the best boss. They go, ‘Oh, we’ve never worked in a place like this before, you’re such a laugh. You get the best out of us.’ And I go, you know, ‘C’est la vie.’ If that’s true – excellent. – Ricky Gervais As David Brent, in The Office (UK).
You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh. – Ron White
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. – Samuel Beckett
I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it’s important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power. – Rory Bremner
When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn’t make you laugh, he probably ain’t gonna make you join. – R. Kelly
I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I’ll get to pursue them. – Olivia Holt
Our show was – it remained – you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn’t know – they wouldn’t get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they’re watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn’t say anything blatant. – Rue McClanahan
While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too. – Rita Mae Brown
I always found the dramatic side of things easier than the comedy, because there’s so many ways to do comedy, and it’s also subjective. Someone might not laugh at what you do, whereas if you’re going to do a dramatic scene, there’s usually only one way you can do it. – Rhys Thomas
I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn’t know the game and couldn’t play it. – Patrick Ewing
A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it’s not weird. But if a man does it, it’s very disturbing. The way I’d describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn’t let me in any of the interesting rooms. – Rob Schneider
I go through my comments sometimes, and I’ll just take snapshots of the terrible ones and send them to my friends. I know it’s horrible, but they actually make me laugh. They make my day. – Sabrina Carpenter
I don’t really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it’s safe, and the guys don’t go to the papers and tell them what I’ve done. – Paul Gascoigne
We didn’t get along, me and Bill Murray. But I’ve got to give it to him: I don’t like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I’m also jealous that he’s a better golfer than I am. – Richard Dreyfuss
I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh. – Ruth Rendell
I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd – it’s a kind of a ‘make me laugh’ attitude. But when you come out as an improvisor, they realize that they’re suggesting everything you do. So they’re already invested in the scene, and they actually want it to work. – Ryan Stiles
I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh? – Patti LuPone
No matter how big a comedian gets, they’re ultimately all just a bunch of nerds with their weird insecurities. You realize these are just the people in high school who were making people laugh. – Reggie Watts