Garrison Keillor Quotes

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.

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

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

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

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

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

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

I love to entertain and make people laugh.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.