Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

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

I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.

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.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

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

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

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

I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.

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

I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

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

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

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

I'm always blown away by stand-ups. I'm blown away by people like that who are craftspeople at comedy.

I love to entertain and make people laugh.

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

I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now and then to keep people on their toes.

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 think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

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

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