#laughs

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. ↗

— Steve Martin

#automatic #automatically #bothered #comedians #day

I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#heart #i #instrument #just #laughs

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#attitudes #change #deep #enough #excellence

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#audiences #encouraged #laughs #liked #loved

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#connection #every #everybody #language #laughs

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#being #comedy #could #done #goal

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#best #deeply #had #i #invent

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#being #comedy #could #done #goal

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#art form #away #comedy #fake #form

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#laugh #laughs #sleep #snore #world