I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.
He laughs, sucking his lip ring into his mouth. "I promise I'll go easy on you. " A naughty feeling dances inside me. "What if I don't want you to go easy on me?
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.
Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.
For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.
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.
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.
My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people.
I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. You're supposed to laugh, you're supposed to cry, you're not supposed to shove your feelings under the rug.
With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene. . . is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.
Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.
I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.