“The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.” — Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
(Some of the best comedians never laugh at their own jokes. Your audience shouldn’t need a prompter. Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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I think the first and only one show with a laughing track that I’ve ever put up with was Seinfeld. And there was a live audience. But generally, I abhorred them.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller is probably a brilliant thinker, but he’s a bit too stuffy for me.
I’d rather say, if the person one jokes about is the first one to laugh, that was an excellent joke.