I was dyslexic – was, still am – ’cause I would see words that weren’t there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I’ll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know? – Tim Conway
I’ve been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh. – Samuel Witwer
But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny, people laugh. If it’s not, they don’t. – Steve Coogan
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. – W. H. Auden
It is true that if you hear our music described, it sounds unappealing. I used to laugh and agree with people when they said it didn’t make any sense. – Tyler Joseph
I like the anonymity, the fact that you’re a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren’t forcing them to laugh – it’s involuntary, and that’s when they give the most honest response. – Trevor Noah
When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that’s power. A lot my heroes – Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, the Wayans, Adam Sandler – they get it. And I’ve always felt that Andy Samberg is the future of comedy. – Terry Crews
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. – William Arthur Ward
You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You’re working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you’re working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. – Theodore Bikel
I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they’re laughing. – Wallace Shawn
I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I’m not interested in just putting clothes in stores. – Thom Browne
I love my iPhone – I’ve actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don’t laugh at me, but I have ‘Sally’s Spa’ – fantastic; ‘Penguin Catapult’ – it’s great; and ‘Word Solitaire’ is my new favorite. – Tabatha Coffey
Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It’s a pretty easy audience, and that’s been around for ages. – Selma Blair
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. – Victoria Abril
Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down. – Tori Spelling
I’ve never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, ‘Can you text this message to somebody.’ I don’t even have a computer on my desk. – Sebastian Coe
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor. – Stephen Leacock
There is some humour in ‘Family Values.’ I don’t want everyone to think it’s not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren’t funny at all. – Wendy Cope
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. – Thomas de Quincey
People try to put ownership on things: ‘That’s mine, that’s my joke.’ No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, ‘Oh, that’s Charlie Chaplin.’ You know what I mean? You can’t own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can’t own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh. – Tommy Chong
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it’s so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh. – Yael Stone