Victor LaValle Quotes

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

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

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

Comedy is a serious business. It's frustrating when I can't find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don't make them laugh, I get very disappointed in myself. You don't really have a live audience, so you just depend on the crew to let you know if you're doing something funny.

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.

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.

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

I wanted to be a comedian.

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.

What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'

I think one of the perks of getting to do comedy is the ability to hang out with the funniest people in the world.

Everyone knows the feeling where you're in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It's awesome, you feel like you rock. That's what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.

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

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

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!