You know it takes a big man to cry, but it takes even a bigger man to laugh at that man! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.” — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
If people get their feelings hurt from jokes, then they are too delicate to be in society. — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously? — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid. — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
I've never pitched a joke that I wouldn't be comfortable seeing in a Pixar film. — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
“If someone cracks up, what does that mean? At what point does a person about to fall to pieces say: I'm cracking… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was his wife who mainly made him laugh, for there are people who can make us laugh even when they… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“Once you even acknowledge that there is a line, that there are things you shouldn’t be allowed to joke about, that there… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, "It's just… — David Cross Copy Share Image
There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself.… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look… — Troy Walker Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will raise a hand to their mouth in shock at something I've said. Sometimes people will laugh and berate themselves… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“What is so often laughable, in the stories of Kundera's Czechoslovakia, is how grimly serious just about everything turns out to be,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“That's funny! Where I come from, good triumphs over evil, you old hag!” — J.C. Spencer Copy Share Image
Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“There's only one thing to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else!” — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily. — Becki Newton Copy Share Image
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is. — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Laugh if you will... They laughed at all great ideas and inventions. They laughed at nitrous oxide.” — John Sladek Copy Share Image
“It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech.” — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized. — Larry David Copy Share Image
