Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his…

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The nice thing is to make an audience laugh and laugh and laugh and shudder later.

— Elaine May

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

— Molly Shannon

If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I like doing live stand-up because that's where I started. If you do TV and radio you just send it out into the ether…

— Hugh Dennis

I've always just tried to make the audience laugh.

— Michael McIntyre

I have been so busy making people laugh with my acting, so I thought why not direct something and make my audience laugh more.

— Satish Kaushik

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

— Todd Barry

I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.

— Simon Neil

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often…

— Larry Charles

That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons.

— Ann Coulter

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If…

— Tina Fey

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think…

— Carrot Top

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

— Lenny Bruce