- Nov 07, 2020
Laugh Quotes
Quotes about making people laugh, and why it matters.
Several quotes here come from comedians talking shop - inventing answers for interviewers, building prop comedy on the fly, choosing stand-up over acting because making a room laugh felt more honest. Funny is the natural next stop.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even dream of going to college. College was not in my definition. If somebody told me I was going to play for the Missouri Tigers in 2009, I would laugh at them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a political analyst. I'm a political wonk. I read everything I can get my hands on as a contributor to the 'Weekly Standard.' Of course I read that. I read the 'National Review' on the right. I read 'Mother Jones' on the left. If I want a good laugh, I'll watch MSNBC or read 'The Nation.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '70s, there was no shortage of people taking themselves too seriously, as 'artistes,' if you will. I think we all had a tendency to do that at some point in our career. So looking back on that, it's fun to laugh at it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can help it, don't be rude to people. When you're rude about someone and the audience laugh you can't deny that it's a bullying laugh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the youngest of four in a large, exhibitionist family. The only way to get attention was to throw yourself off the top of a ladder - as one of my cousins used to do - or make people laugh.
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- Nov 07, 2020