The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun. – Jerry Seinfeld
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun. – Billy Joel
I’ve definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: ‘I’m not going to do jokes about anything crude because I’m bigger and better than that.’ But then, I don’t know… It makes me laugh, so I started doing it. – Jack Whitehall
I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they’re spying on somebody who doesn’t know they’re looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously – you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not. – Betty White
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. – Jean de la Bruyere
I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we’re a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn’t being ironic. – Bono
I’m direct, I’m unpretentious and I’m pretty dogged, and I hope I’ve got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously. – John Howard
With stand-up, it doesn’t matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it’s your job to make them laugh. – Aubrey Plaza
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You’re trying to make them laugh. They can’t laugh at someone they’re looking up to. – Buddy Hackett
People don’t come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh. – Blanka Vlasic
My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That’s the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that. – Jeff Dunham
The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I’d want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist. – Ayelet Waldman
I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke. – Julian Clary
Here’s the thing, with comedy – and I learned this from Will Ferrell – you can’t be ashamed. If you’re doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh. – John C. Reilly
Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power. – Bernie Mac
If a man is tongue-tied, don’t laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs. – Abraham Cahan
But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain? – Billie Burke
I wasn’t planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that’s how I started. – Jamie Kennedy
Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit ‘Duck Dynasty’ in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described ‘white trash’ family. – Ben Shapiro
I think I’m in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you’ve seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself. – John le Carre
My dad would always say, ‘What can you do to make the world a better place?’ Well, I can make people laugh. – Jon Lovitz
Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh. – Adam Sandler
Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts – you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that’s what makes it cool. – Andre Benjamin
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln
No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but ‘Enchanted’ proved everyone wrong. – Alethea Kontis