Always Quote by James Lapine

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

— Shahrukh Khan

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

— Danny DeVito

I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over…

— Elaine Stritch

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when…

— John Prine

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your…

— Nora Ephron

The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your…

— W. C. Fields

I love comedy. There's just something so great about making people laugh. And for me, too, whenever I laugh, it just makes me feel…

— Stefanie Scott

There are so many different ways of making people laugh and sometimes you sit down to watch something that everyone says is hilarious and…

— Limmy

People need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the…

— Chris Farley

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love…

— Jimmy Carr

There's the power that comedy gives you, and the enjoyment. It's like 'Yes, you're deferring pain, but isn't it more fun to laugh while…

— Maya Rudolph

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the…

— Steve Coogan