Control Quote by Sydney Pollack

I'm like a sight gag.

— Adam Driver

When I want to make someone laugh in real life (as opposed to when I'm on stage where I tell one-liners), I tend to…

— Wendy Liebman

If you want a lot of visual humor, the way to do it is have visual people do it.

— Dan Povenmire

Everyone talks about the gags, but the most difficult thing is coming up with the stories. You have to learn to do that for…

— Lee Mack

I tend to develop my rambling anecdotes by actually getting up and performing them. That's the joy/horror of stand up - if you have…

— Greg Davies

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

— Wallace Shawn

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

— Ted Danson

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really…

— Noel Fielding

My dad was a fiercely funny guy, and he and his brother would get on runs. So my younger brother and I were basically…

— Ty Burrell

I know what I want to talk about, but I don't really know what's funny about a joke until I perform it in front…

— James Acaster

As I began to perform - songs, poems, sketches or conjuring tricks - I began to learn what children run with and what they…

— Michael Rosen

You see, I've always had this thing in that I love to make people laugh, I want to entertain people.

— John Pinette