Michael Winterbottom Quotes

As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.

I was never a hammy child. But I could make people laugh.

Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not stabbing anybody, not shooting anybody, not making anybody watch me perform. There are thousands of comedians, don't come see me because it's not like I hide it.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

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.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

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.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.

If I make fun of somebody at my show, believe me, it's something we can all laugh at.

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool thing.