I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.
I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.
I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.
I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.
It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.
My eyes are different sizes, my nose is too broad at the bridge and squishes up when I laugh, and my lips are sorta funny when I smile.
Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.
With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.
It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.
I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.
I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
