Taran Killam Quotes

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

There's no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn't been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you'll look cool, I don't get that. But I don't watch standup anyway, so I don't know what they're doing.

Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

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

My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that.

I want to make videos that, if I didn't know myself, I'd want to watch. As long as I'm making myself laugh, I'm usually having a good time. That's how I know I've made a video that I'm proud of: I've made myself laugh.

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

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.