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People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.
Terry Zwigoff
Funny
Character
Me
You
People
Light
Laugh
Find
Silly
Takes
Bouncing
Performance
Stuff
Like
Around
Dialogue
Get
Screaming
Energetic
Really
Film
Nuance
We don't worry about continuity because when we're doing so many improvs, it's better to get the laugh. It's better to get the great lines even if they're in the wrong part of the room.
Thelma Schoonmaker
Great
Better
Worry
Laugh
About
Part
Wrong
Because
Doing
Continuity
Lines
Get
Room
Many
Even
You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
Theodore Bikel
Time
You
Comedy
Live
Films
Later
Months
Draw
Laugh
Come
Know
Always
How
Audiences
Doing
May
Six
Experiences
Working
Your
Vacuum
I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.
Thom Browne
Smile
Hate
People
Clothes
Laugh
Put
Putting
Concepts
Make
Front
Just
Want
Stores
Not Interested
Interested
Them
Even
I'm not saying that comedy has to be a certain thing - I'm not trying to define comedy, where it's like, it can only be silly things. But I think part of what makes a comedy is that at least part of the mantra of the show is trying to make people laugh.
Thomas Middleditch
Saying
People
Comedy
Think
Define
Laugh
Silly
Silly Things
Only
Part
Like
Make
Makes
Least
Trying
Where
Certain
Mantra
Show
Thing
Things
It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is going to think that it's awful. You gotta be able to just sit back and kind of laugh it off and know you're doing exactly what you wanna do, and if people don't like it, then it's not really my place to tell them they have to like it.
Thomas Rhett
You
People
Song
Matter
Old
Dance
Sit
Think
Back
Laugh
Out
Tell
Kind
Exactly
Exactly What
Able
Someone
Put
Like
Know
Gotta
Doing
George
Off
Any
Going
Just
Wanna
Place
Them
Then
Really
Strait
Awful
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Thomas de Quincey
Will
Complexion
Long
Solemn
Pleasures
Laugh
Nobody
Deals
Opium
Much
Who
Even
Grave
I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know?
Tim Conway
Good
You
Dyslexic
People
Words
Cause
Thought
Living
Way
Laugh
Laughing
Would
See
Good Way
Know
Well
Make
Read
Am
Still
Go
Were
Just
Downtown
Started
I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.
Tim Conway
People
Somebody
Before
Laugh
Laughed
Would
About
Something
Onstage
Over
Over It
Got
Get
Front
Getting
Going
Ill
Bomb
In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.
Tim Crouch
Me
Laughter
Laugh
Laughing
Open
Audience
Question
Crack
Use
Why
I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.
Tim Minchin
You
People
Laugh
No Point
Point
Come
Cry
Make
Conclusion
Making
Going
Anything
It's about the audience - if they laugh and clap, you feed off that, and if they don't, you doubt everything you've ever done.
Tim Minchin
You
Doubt
Everything
Laugh
Clap
About
Feed
Audience
Off
Done
Ever
Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
Tina Fey
Myself
Me
People
Somewhere
Seventh
Laugh
Out
Could
Part
Like
Identity
Make
Became
Around
Making
Trying
Grade
Essentially
Just
After
While
Them
Fifth
Figured
Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.
Tina Fey
Great
You
Comedy
Old
Down
Think
Once
Laugh
Dress
Someone
Guy
Writer
Push
Like
Know
Make
Catherine
Him
Attributed
Said
Real
Up
Person
Lady
Stairs
Old Lady
Regular
Regular Person
Who
Need
The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.
Tina Fey
You
Yourself
People
Rebellion
Comedy
Humor
Girl
Before
Else
Way
Hey
Laugh
Deflect
Out
Obedient
Someone
Only
Could
Check
Like
Know
Make
Comfortable
Around
Making
Get
Form
Them
Used
Fun
Chance
My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it's great fun.
Tina Fey
Day
Great
Together
Lunch
Crew
Everyone
Favorite
Laugh
Great Fun
See
Thursday
Stuff
Rock
Hear
Screen
Worked
Episodes
Show
Fun
Watch
I want to go places where there are really well-meaning people doing work that is interesting and seems to really matter and where everybody looks like at least once a day they have a really good laugh.
Tina Smith
Work
Good
Day
People
Matter
Everybody
Good Laugh
Once
Laugh
Seems
Like
Looks
Well-Meaning
Least
Doing
Go
Where
Want
Places
Interesting
Really
And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.
Todd Barry
Joy
Laugh
Some
Make
Audience
Goal
Them
Really
Bring
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
Todd Solondz
Truth
You
People
Laughter
Hypocrisy
Side
Tool
Hidden
Laugh
Taboo
No Question
Part
Nail
Also
Make
Existence
Question
Very
Get
Trying
Want
Useful
Show
Painful
Useful Tool
I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.
Tom Baker
Myself
Me
People
Doctor
Seen
Laugh
Kind
Entertainer
Someone
Doctor Who
Makes
Always
Been
Any
Just
Wanted
Really
Who
Actor
Ever
My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.
Tom Bodett
Positive
Work
Yourself
Early Work
Laugh
Kind
Outlook
Light-Hearted
Still
Very
Going
Much
Thing
Early
Very few things are totally devoid of any possibility of humor. If you are aware of that possibility and alive to the scene becoming that way, then it just happens naturally. That's what I feel living is like, too. I find a lot of things that make me smile or make me laugh over the course of the day.
Tom Drury
Smile
Day
Me
You
Humor
Few
Living
Too
Way
Alive
Laugh
Possibility
Find
Totally
Scene
Feel
Over
Like
Devoid
Make
Make Me Laugh
Course
Becoming
Lot
Very
Few Things
Any
Just
Happens
Then
Naturally
Aware
Things
I turn to my wife for everything. Her success has never affected her as a person - she's incredibly loyal. We laugh together; we share everything, and she still surprises me. When I saw her in 'Sweet Charity,' I was so proud to say, 'That's my wife.'
Tom Ellis
Success
Me
Together
Charity
Wife
Sweet
Incredibly
Everything
Saw
Say
Laugh
Never
Share
She
Proud
Still
Surprises
Affected
Person
Turn
Loyal
Her
I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.
Tom Hiddleston
Amazing
Yesterday
Twitter
Laugh
Pretty
Like
Very
Account
Get
Informed
Used
Hard
Things
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
Tom Lehrer
Funny
You
Humor
Laughter
Laugh
Involuntary
I wasn't the crazy kid bouncing off the walls, I would just sit back a make comments and I made people laugh.
Tom Segura
Crazy
People
Walls
Made
Sit
Back
Kid
Laugh
Would
Bouncing
Make
Off
Comments
Just
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