A Quote by Johnny Lever

A lot of thought goes into making people laugh. Comedy is never easy. Making people cry is easier than making them laugh.

Johnny Lever

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Johnny Lever
Indian - Actor

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.

Jillian Bell

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Steve Martin

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Stephen Sondheim

It's easy to scare people. It's easy to shock them. But making people laugh and making them feel is a big challenge.

Steve Carr

I can't think of anything more important than a kid being sick and making them laugh and making that whole experience a little easier.

Coy Bowles

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

Steve Coogan

Comedy comes from childhood only. The humour genes you are born with remain with you. I was always making mischief and making people laugh.

Johnny Lever

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

Rob Delaney

I don't ever want to let people down, so a lot of my energy goes to making people laugh and letting them know how much I care for them.

Kenny Wallace

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

Nora Ephron

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.