#laughs

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news. ↗

— David Sedaris

#big news #exaggerates #get #how #humorist

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

#because #better #folks #funny #handle

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#billy #brother #child #competition #cutting

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute - I've got to have them. ↗

— Ken Dodd

#away #get #going #got #hard

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life. ↗

— Emmett Kelly

#back #battles #done #gives #going

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#always #american #being #comedy #cultural

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. ↗

— Tom Baker

#ever #got #i #i can #laughs

Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff. Go for the laughs. ↗

— Rip Torn

#guys #laughs #other #stuff

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ↗

— Tom Bodett

#difference #forget #forgets #laugh #laughs

There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important. ↗

— Peter Farrelly

#finds #guy #his #important #just