Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

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

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

I love to entertain and make people laugh.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

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.