Robert Reich Quotes

I feel mindless comedies make you relax - there are times when I come from shooting and watch comedy shows; they really change my mood.

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

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

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

The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it.

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

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.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I'm going to sleep with a smile on my face.' That's my job; that's what I do.

I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.

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

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.