Laughter Response Quotes

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

If I see someone not laughing, the first thing I'm thinking is, "OK, am I cursing too much? Am I doing a joke he doesn't understand? Is he resting?" Then he starts becoming my focal point. Once I see him laugh, I'm like, [snap] "All right, now I'm funny."

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it's very helpful. If they're not laughing and they don't say that they loved it, then I have screwed up.

I can tell how honest a joke is or how true a joke is by how fast the laughs come.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don't mind laughing at it before you guys do.

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

Before YouTube, I used to show videos at film festivals, and that was good and constructive. Watching things with an audience is a great way to gauge - it's pretty clear what's working in comedy when there's a joke and people laugh or don't laugh.

An artist shouldn't be judged by how many people like his art but by how pure and good it is - but I think that when you're telling jokes, which is more what I'm doing, if people aren't laughing, you're telling bad jokes.

I don't want to alienate anybody. If you're making a joke about men and men are laughing at it, it's a good joke.

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.