Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again - I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.
In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.
I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.