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“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
Lenny Bruce
“Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!”
William Arthur Ward
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore
“If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?”
Stephen Wright
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that”
William Shakespeare
“Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.”
“He who laughs, lasts.”
Norwegian Proverb
“I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.”
Will Rogers
“I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.”
Red Skelton
“You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.”
Jay Leno