Marlo Thomas Quotes

I love comedy, and I love listening to comedians talk.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.

It's not at all easy to make people laugh. Kudos to those who can do it so well.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.

I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.

I'm fascinated by comedy.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.

When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave Letterman - not an actor, obviously, but I'm still impressed by his wit. I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh.

I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.

I'm drawn to the funny brand of comedy.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.