All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.