I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and I think people will laugh at themselves. And it's lighthearted.
Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.
If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.
Mac MacGuff: Liberty Bell, if you put one more Bac-O on that potato, I'll spank your monkey behind. Liberty Bell: [laughs]
There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal s...
I didn't really blossom until my mid teens, and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular.
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Having done film, TV and theatre, the nicest final bit of the jigsaw is to do live comedy, because you can talk to the audience. It feels really natural to be able to laugh with them, but at the same time still be within the framework of a play.
The scariest thing about screening a comedy... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.
I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Brian: [after trying a prairie oyster for the first time] Peppermint prairie oysters? Sally: Oh, you got the toothpaste glass! [laughs a little]
Luigi: [laughs] Release Jacopo, and give him back his knife. And we'll let the games begin.
Alex: What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent.
Driver: I don't have wheels on my car. Irene: [laughing] Okay. Driver: It's one thing you should know about me.
Gus: [waiter drops a tray of dishes] Real nice. Just put that anywhere, pal. Yeah. [laughs] Ralph: Good save!
Kim: [horn honks] Hey good looking! We'll be back to pick you up later! Lee: [Jasper laughs] Gulp.
Rebecca: So, what do you do if you're a Satanist anyway? Enid: Sacrifice virgins and stuff. Rebecca: Well, that lets us off the hook. [they laugh]
Hermione: [laughing, mocking Professor Trelawney] Broaden your minds! Use your inner eye to see the future!
