Ken Dodd Quotes

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

I think I've got a funny face.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

I wasn't a great improviser when I started there; I'm not really up on current events. I would always just mug, just try to get my laughs from making faces. So I decided to do a character who should never have become a comic - somebody you would see at the Comedy Store and go, "This person is never going to make it."

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

The kind of über-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."

There's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.

I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

People basically aren't that racist. They want their laughs. If I make a white guy laugh, he's gonna come see me. He's not gonna go see the white guy who doesn't make him laugh just because that guy is white.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

A joke is necessary at this time.

So Stephanie.. you wanna say let the bodies hit the floor... I would say... let the boobies hit the floor!