Laughter Control Quotes

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can ruin their best take. But sometimes it's very hard not to.

The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

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

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

When I watch TV I can tell when someone is punching the joke and telling me when to laugh (I’ll decide when to laugh, thank you very much).

I'm particularly bad at breaking if something's funny. I'm not professional, so I do often laugh, but less at what I do and more often at what other people do.

If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny, don't laugh. Or you could possibly go as far as groaning or rolling your eyes. Then you wait for his next joke; if that's funny, then you laugh. If it's not, you don't laugh - or at very worst, you can leave quietly.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

Every laugh is not equal. They come from different places. That's sort of the challenge I go towards, making sure the laughs are for the reasons I want. It becomes a back and forth dance with the audience.

When I say something funny, I don't laugh.

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.

I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.