Appreciative Quote by James Thurber

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

— Graham Linehan

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians…

— John Cena

To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when…

— Sonia Choquette

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your…

— Hiam Abbass

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time…

— Twyla Tharp

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments…

— Mathew Baynton

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

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Humor lightens our spirits, comforts us through the challenge, brings people together, and helps us to remember the positive sides of life. When your…

— Susan C. Young

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other…

— James Thurber

The intention is to make people laugh, to make people happy. It's unselfish, it's in the service of others, and as a comedian you…

— Margaret Cho