- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funniest guy I've ever worked with - it's just one of those things, again, where we look at each other and just laugh - is Jimmy Byrnes from 'Wiseguy.' Jimmy - we can't be in the same room together. He knows he can make me laugh just by looking at me.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
No book has ever made me laugh as much as 'I, Partridge.'
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them laugh, make them like you. But what makes being a barrister less satisfying than being a writer is, finally, that it's about what someone else wants you to say.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing. For them, the law is a system of rules not that different from mathematics.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020