There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'

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

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention ' it would be funny.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh that don't make you physically audibly make a noise but is something that is much more powerful than that.

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read easier to understand and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real and if you aren't funny they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film it was intelligent it was funny it took a laugh at itself.

Comedy is surprises so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh that's funny.

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny in fact the audiences in London Toronto LA New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

You know the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that you can go over one million things but in a business of bean counters he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny people laugh. If it's not they don't.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was just standing there talking.