#laugh

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. ↗

— Steve Martin

#comedy #laugh #making #people #puke

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. ↗

— Steve Martin

#automatic #automatically #bothered #comedians #day

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out. ↗

— Steve Martin

#being #ego #found #front #high

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself. ↗

— Steve Martin

#andy #bedroom #day #friend #had

I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#heart #i #instrument #just #laughs

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.' ↗

— Danny Masterson

#come #day #ever #forget #guy

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh. ↗

— Paul Merton

#i #laugh #like #making #old

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#away #cried #develops #downs #gone

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble! ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#always #because #been #brothers #comedy

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

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