I'm quite good at talking about things I care about.

Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

I'm practically crying between takes every day, we're laughing so hard.

I'm going to hell, ah... but you're laughing, so you're coming.

I was being chased by a giant crab. [Audience laughs] That's not funny.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

I had not seen it for a long time and was suddenly embarrassed to find that I was laughing more than anyone.

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

Laughter is a force for democracy.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.

“To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise”

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.