I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
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But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.
Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.
I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
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