I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.
Growing up, I was always enthralled by Ronnie Barker. He made my dad howl with laughter, which always intrigued me, and he had the rare gift of being as good a performer as he was a writer.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Laughter is an instant vacation.
That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing?
There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Laughter is inner jogging.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
