If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?
Eric BanaIf I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.
Bernie MacThe test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Jean NathanThe young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George SantayanaPrimarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
Jonathan ShapiroMy whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
Dan Aykroyd