Cocky Quote by Buddy Hackett

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say…

— Buddy Hackett

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need…

— Tim Vine

Sometimes people will raise a hand to their mouth in shock at something I've said. Sometimes people will laugh and berate themselves in equal…

— Liz Carr

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and…

— George Carlin

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If…

— Christopher Hitchens

“98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people being funny,…

— Ken Jeong

We're all basically decent human beings so if 3,000 people are laughing at a joke then it's worth telling.

— Lee Mack

It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes…

— Elizabeth Banks

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

— Robin Williams

I can tell how honest a joke is or how true a joke is by how fast the laughs come.

— Michael Che

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either…

— Steve Martin