Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

Oh, I love stand-up.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

There's an art to comedy.

I really, really love stand-up.

I always knew I was quite good at getting laughs. At school, I loved having a ready audience if I made a cheeky remark.

You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.

I was destined to make people laugh.

I've always just tried to make the audience laugh.

I was once doing a gig with Tim Vine; he was backstage, and there was one of those long strings of polystyrene coffee cups. He picked up the whole stack of about 20, walked on stage and then said: 'Bloody hell this coffee's hot!' which I think is the funniest thing anyone has ever said.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.