Gilda Radner Quote: 'Comedy is very controlling

My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

Dwayne Johnson

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Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Colin Firth

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Making people laugh is the greatest experience.

Rebecca Romijn

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But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Steve Coogan

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You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

Thomas Gibson

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To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

Josh Peck

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Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

Bo Burnham

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I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

William Shatner

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My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

Carrot Top

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I love entertaining and making people laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

Miranda Cosgrove

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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.

Verne Troyer

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My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

Lynn Johnston

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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

Vivien Leigh

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Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

Betty White

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When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny.

Michael Keaton

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A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.

Stan Laurel

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Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release.

Noah Hawley

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You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

Eric Stoltz

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A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

Billy Crystal

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In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

Nick Kroll

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