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3[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
4->'''Wolfwood:''' Well, I'll be. I'm actually surprised that you can smile like that.\
5'''Vash:''' Huh? What do you mean?\
6'''Wolfwood:''' Ya had me kind of worried. I noticed that you always smile and seem really friendly. But the way you smiled was so empty, it hurt to watch you. You're hurting like crazy on the inside, yet you grin and bear it.
7-->-- ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''
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9
10[[folder:Comic Books]]
11->'''Rocket''': Listen... I got good ears, okay. I hear stuff. Little pauses. Tremors, inflections, stuff like that. And... well, I guess... Aw, flark. Are you okay, buddy?\
12'''Deadpool''': [''narrating''] And I really want to make a joke. Make a funny. Be the funny joke, so nobody knows, so nobody can see... But that's the rule, isn't it? No funny in the gutter.
13-->--''Comicbook/Rocket2017''
14
15->I lose a lot, guys. No matter what I do, I always seem to lose. But I refuse to be beaten. So I make jokes. I get up right in life's face and mock it into oblivion. Because when I do that, I show life that it won't beat me. Ever. [...] Also, my jokes are amazing and it would be a crime against the universe not to utter them. ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} [[BlatantLies thought I was hilarious.]] He's dead now, so you can't ask him, but he said it all the time.
16-->-- '''ComicBook/SpiderMan''', ''Inhuman Special''
17
18->Everybody assumes that if you make jokes, you're happy. Why? Why is that?
19-->-- '''Swerve''', ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''
20[[/folder]]
21
22[[folder:Fan Works]]
23->'''Cloud:''' Come on, let's head into the arena and ask if anyone's seen [[EverybodysDeadDave aaaanythinnnnng]]...\
24'''Cait Sith:''' Well geez, don't all speak up at once! Hahahaha! I am sorry, sometimes you just gotta laugh at death.\
25'''[[TheEeyore Mog]]:''' [[AC:And cry at life.]]
26-->-- ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged''
27
28->Yes, it's all true. You can see behind Mitsuzane's smile are stained with a clown's tears.
29-->-- '''[[Series/KamenRiderGaim Takatora Kureshima]]''', ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/119/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]''
30
31->'''Kirito:''' You, uh, you okay, buddy?\
32'''Corvatz:''' Do not fear, my friends... Corvatz... can never... d- (''shatters to one last guitar strum'')\
33'''Kirito:''' H-huh, wow, I guess you could say... he went out on a high note?\
34'''Klein:''' Really, man?! A pun?!\
35'''Kirito:''' What, what's- what's wrong, I'm, I'm a funny guy, it's what I do...\
36'''ALF RedShirt:''' ''Someone help me! Please!''\
37'''Kirito:''' I-I mean, what do you expect from me? [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial It's not like I]] '' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial care]]'' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial about any of this.]]\
38'''ALF Red Shirt:''' ''Please, I don't wanna die!''\
39'''Kirito:''' I mean why would I care, I shouldn't care, [[BlatantLies I DON'T CARE!]]\
40'''ALF Red Shirt:''' ''Noooooooo!''\
41'''Kirito:''' [[BigDamnHeroes RRRRGGGHHH!!]]
42-->-- ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''
43[[/folder]]
44
45[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
46->''I would rejoice''\
47''At the top of my voice''\
48''I'd be a true warlock''\
49''But I had no choice.''\
50''Sister was'' frightful\
51''And spitefully made me a clown.''
52-->--'''The Jester''', ''in his VillainSong in WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn''.
53
54->'''Glinda:''' My, but you're... silly.\
55'''Jester:''' Silly! By silly, surely you mean diabolical?\
56'''Glinda:''' (laughs)\
57'''Jester:''' No? (laughs mirthlessly) You're laughing. It's the costume, isn't it? I know, I know. Hard to take me seriously. It's my curse... ''literally.'' I. Can't. Take. This. Off. ''Ever.''
58-->--'''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'''
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60
61[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
62->'''Mr. Silky String:''' And just who is this "Phantom Lady"?\
63'''Patrick "Kitten" Braden''': Well, it's my mother really. I call her that... to pretend it's a story. That's happening to someone else, you see.\
64'''String''': Why do you pretend that?\
65'''Kitten:''': Because otherwise I might cry and never stop.
66-->-- ''Film/BreakfastOnPluto''
67
68->'''Deadpool:''' Ripley! From ''Film/Alien3!''\
69'''Negasonic Teenage Warhead:''' Fuck, you're old.\
70'''Deadpool:''' Ha ha! Fake laugh... hiding real pain.
71-->-- ''{{Film/Deadpool|2016}}''
72[[/folder]]
73
74[[folder:Literature]]
75->I've taken a good, long look at the world, and I've concluded that if I didn't laugh I'd probably break down crying.
76-->-- '''Silk''', ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad The Mallorean]]''
77
78->If you can't keep the bad thoughts out, at least you can make fun of them while they're there.
79-->-- '''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]''', ''Literature/TurnCoat''
80
81->For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon -- laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution -- these can lift at a colossal humbug, -- push it a little -- crowd it a little -- weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.
82-->-- '''Mark Twain''', "The Chronicle of Young Satan," ''Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts''
83
84->In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.
85-->-- ''[[Literature/TheWheelOfTime A Crown of Swords]]''
86
87->The others didn't know that [[ArcVillain Visser One]] was my mother. They all thought what I had thought for the past two years: that my mom had drowned. That her body had never been found. I hadn't wanted the others to know the truth. That my mother had been made into a Controller. That [[PuppeteerParasite the Yeerk inside her head]] was the original commander of the Earth invasion.
88->[[DontYouDarePityMe I didn't want their pity]]. I still don't. [[PluckyComicRelief I'm a joker. I'm a comedian.]] That's how I deal with life. See, I've always believed that to some extent you get to decide for yourself what your life will be like. You can either look at the world and say, "Oh, isn't it all so tragic, so grim, so awful." Or you can look at the world and decide that it's mostly funny.
89-->--'''Marco,''' ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #15: The Escape''
90
91->[Riley] lets her emotions show more than me. Because I'm [[ClassClown Jacky Ha-Ha.]] And no one likes a sad clown.
92-->--''Literature/JackyHaHa''
93[[/folder]]
94
95[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
96->What do I "think"? I think I'm tired. I think I'm sick and tired of wearing bells on my toes and making like everything's gonna be O.K. I think it's ''pathetic'' that lately I'm too scared and sad to tell people the truth so I just [[LiesToChildren say what they wanna hear]] instead. Most of all, I think the term '[[DrowningMySorrows Happy Hour]]' should be banned from the English language. There's nothing happy about this hour or any other. What I know is I started drinking the moment that I found out that a girl I loved was gonna die. Every time I get to the bottom of the glass, I hope that that last drop is gonna take me the distance. A simple plan that failed utterly, which is why I'm gonna heave my tuchus off this stool, strap the bells on, and with a smile and a quip, go back into the belly of a very ugly beast and pretend like I can help. 'Cause that's what [[FunPersonified the green guy]] does.
97-->--'''Lorne''', ''{{Series/Angel}}'', "Underneath"
98
99->You're quite the funny man -- and yet, I think, laughing on purpose at the darkness.
100-->-- '''Mrs Finnegan''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones "Smith and Jones"]]
101
102->'''Chandler:''' Oh, that’s great. With my luck, that’s gonna be him.\
103'''Phoebe:''' Him? Him, Ross?\
104'''Chandler:''' Nope, hymn 253, His Eyes Are On The Sparrow! ''(off their looks)'' When my parents got divorced is when I started using humour as a defence mechanism.
105-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}''
106
107->And the punchline was the Blackout. When the world went back to being one giant schoolyard, and the [[TheBully Billy Underwood]]’s are in charge and I am weak and afraid.
108-->-- '''Aaron Pittman''', ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E3NoQuarter No Quarter]]"
109
110->''"You see Doctor Wen in there? He's explaining to the family that something went wrong, and the patient died. He's gonna tell them what happened. He's gonna say he's sorry. And then he's going back to work. You think anybody else in that room is going back to work today? That is why we distance ourselves. That is why we make jokes. We don't do it because it's funny. We do it so we can get by. And because sometimes it's really funny. But mostly it's the getting by thing."''
111-->-- '''Doctor Cox''', ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''
112
113->Yeah, I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.
114-->-- '''[[Series/TheSopranos Tony Soprano]]'''
115
116->Joking about it is the only way of opening my mouth without screaming.
117-->-- '''Hawkeye,''' ''Series/{{MASH}}''
118
119->I thought, "It must've so much fun to be a [[Film/TheLittleRascals Little Rascal]]". Then I looked it up. [[{{Understatement}} It was not very fun to be a Little Rascal.]]
120-->-- Creator/MelissaVillasenor, ''[[Series/SaturdayNightLive Weekend Update]]''
121[[/folder]]
122
123[[folder:Music]]
124->Although I laugh and I act like a clown\
125Beneath this mask, I am wearing a frown
126-->-- '''Music/TheBeatles''', "I'm a Loser"
127
128->Five days a workweek\
129It's in my face\
130[[PieInTheFace Pie in my face]]\
131It sucks to be a clown
132-->-- '''Music/JonathanCoulton''', "Bozo's Lament"
133
134->'Ha! Marshall you're so funny man\
135You should be a comedian, God damn!'\
136Unfortunately I am\
137I just hide behind the tears of a clown
138-->-- '''Music/{{Eminem}}''', "Beautiful"
139
140->Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes, but the cloud remains the same.\
141Wonder why he’s feeling down? Tears of a clown.\
142Maybe it’s all just for the best, lay his weary head to rest.\
143He was forever feeling drowned, Tears of a clown.
144-->-- '''Music/IronMaiden''', "Tears of a Clown"
145
146->The children love the show, but they fail to see the anguish in my eyes
147-->-- '''Music/MarilynManson''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNf-udrmN8 "Dope Hat"]]
148
149->Inside, my heart is breaking\
150My makeup may be flaking\
151But my smile still stays on...
152-->-- '''{{Music/Queen}}''', "The Show Must Go On"
153
154->There's some sad things known to man\
155But ain't too much sadder than\
156The tears of a clown\
157When there's no one around.
158-->-- '''Smokey Robinson and the Miracles''', "Tears of a Clown"
159
160->Come and watch the skinny kid with\
161A [[CreatorBreakdown steadily declining mental health]]\
162And laugh as he attempts to give you\
163What he cannot give himself.
164-->--'''Creator/BoBurnham''', "Can't Handle This"
165
166->Goodbye, cruel world\
167I'm off to join the circus\
168Gonna be a broken-hearted clown\
169Paint my face with a good-for-nothing smile\
170'Cause a mean, fickle woman turned my whole world upside down.
171-->-- '''James Darren''', "Goodbye, Cruel World"
172
173->Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune\
174Something to make us all happy\
175Do anything take us out of this gloom\
176Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy\
177You are the one who can make us all laugh\
178But doing that you break out in tears\
179Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had\
180We wouldn't have known you all these years
181-->-- '''Music/{{Traffic|Band}}''', "Dear Mr. Fantasy"
182[[/folder]]
183
184[[folder:Theatre]]
185->''"Put on your costume, powder your face.\
186The people pay, and they want to laugh.\
187And if Harlequin shall steal your Columbina,\
188laugh, clown, so the crowd will cheer!\
189Turn your distress and tears into jest,\
190your pain and sobbing into a funny face – Ah!\
191Laugh, clown,\
192At your broken love!\
193Laugh at the grief that poisons your heart!"''
194-->-- '''Canio''', ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}'' ("Vesti la giubba", English translation)
195
196->There's always a funny man in the game,\
197But he's only funny by mistake.\
198But ev'ryone laughs at him just the same.\
199They don't see his painted heart break.
200-->-- '''Cocky''', ''The Roar of the Greasepaint--The Smell of the Crowd'', "The Joker"
201
202->Though your wife ran away with a soldier that day,\
203And took with her your trifle of money;\
204Bless your heart, they don't mind —\
205They're exceedingly kind —\
206They don't blame you — as long as you're funny!
207-->-- '''Jack Point''', ''Theatre/TheYeomenOfTheGuard''
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209
210[[folder:Video Games]]
211->'''Warden:''' This is the part where you deflect questions with humour?\
212'''Alistair:''' I'd use my shield, but I think you'd actually see me hiding behind it.
213-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''
214
215->I mean, when you look at me, you wouldn't think that I'm anything but a fun-loving, happy-go-lucky joker. But that isn't the real me. Behind all the quips and laughs, I'm a mess of hang-ups.
216-->-- '''Prompto Argentum''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV''
217
218->'''Dazai:''' From birth, as I grew, I began to realize I wasn't the same as those around me. To everyone else, the confusion of life made perfect sense. Upon learning this, I became afraid of how different I was. So, I decided to become a clown.\
219'''MC:''' You... became a clown?\
220'''Dazai:''' A clown is just a role. But every group has one. If I played this role well, I might be able to blend in with real people. For he who can't be human like the rest, but he who can't go without them. It was a foolish choice. Then again, he was a clown.\
221''[beat]''\
222'''Dazai:''' ''(cheerfully)'' ...Did you enjoy that story, Toshiko-san? I simply couldn't puff out my chest and declare myself good at making up stories without making up one for you.\
223'''MC:''' ''[thinking]'' (...I don't think that was made up. I think what he told me was true. His past. But I also think he's trying to tell me not to delve any deeper than that.)
224-->-- ''Ikemen Vampire''
225
226->Can I tell you something? I admit. I have not been taking anything seriously since the takeover. I do not want to accept that this is happening. That our lives are being ruined by some [=BUTThead=]. And the more I keep acting like all of this is a joke. The more I can forget about her big FAT STUPID-
227-->--'''Mary/Brains''', ''Videogame/TheBrainsAndTheBrawn''
228
229->'''Otto:''' DAMMIT! This is all your fault, Norman, you son of a--\
230'''Peter:''' Well, I know who YOU'RE not voting for in the next election.\
231''[Otto looks at Peter]''\
232'''Peter:''' Sorry. I, uh, have a habit of making bad jokes in tense situations.\
233''[brief silence]''\
234'''Otto:''' ''[laughs]'' It was a good joke, Parker.
235-->--''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4''
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237
238[[folder:Web Original]]
239->By now you know that Creator/RobinWilliams has committed suicide, but I'm not here to talk about him. He's gone, and you're still here, and suicidal thoughts are so common among our readers and writers that our message board has a hidden section where moderators can coordinate responses to suicide threats [...] Now do you want me to tell you how many messages/comments/emails we get from fans telling a writer to 'kill yourself' because said writer [[{{Troll}} wrote a joke they didn't like?]] When I ban them, they always act confused as to why.
240-->-- ''{{Website/Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/robin-williams-why-funny-people-kill-themselves/ "Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves"]]
241
242->It's terrifying to think that Williams could accomplish so much and yet find himself driven to suicide. He reached the pinnacle of both the comic profession and the acting profession. He was wealthy. He invented the blueprint for comic acting longevity ([[TomHanksSyndrome comic movies, then a gradual transition to serious fare]]) that many actors have followed since. He fulfilled every show business dream that you or I had as a child, and yet it wasn't enough. I am trained as an American to believe that career success and financial success are twin salves that can cure all wounds, but Williams's death is a harrowing reminder that [[AllThatGlitters it's all a lie]]. The idea that you can fall into a despair that trumps all that is scary as hell.\
243And frankly, I'd prefer not to think about it. I think I'd prefer to shut that all out and have a laugh instead...It's a fantastic distraction from pain and loss, and Robin Williams probably knew that better than anyone.
244-->-- '''[[http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2014/08/robin-williams-a-night-at-the-met-changed-my-life.html Drew Magary]]'''
245
246->Oh, why so serious? You're supposed to be the man who laughs, but those jokes were like your new movie: (aha!) mostly really sad.
247-->-- '''[[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise the Dancing Clown]]''' ripping on ''Film/Joker2019'', ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''
248[[/folder]]
249
250[[folder:Western Animation]]
251->"''The helper seeks to help, because he knows what it's like to be helpless.''"
252-->-- '''Zen Wander''', ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', "The Wanders"
253[[/folder]]
254
255[[folder:Real Life]]
256->Wanting to please people, to only tell them what they wanted to hear, became very deeply a part of me, as it probably did with most children who felt uncertain of the tactic needed to avoid a blow. [...] That's how it is with incomplete personalities.
257-->-- '''Creator/TomBaker''', ''Who On Earth is Tom Baker?''
258
259->As a great admirer of the late Creator/BennyHill, I was looking forward to working with him and getting to know him. The first part was a pleasure but the second part was impossible. Benny was very pleasant to all of us -- unfailingly courteous, kind and professional, but it was not possible to make any real contact with him. He was a truly solitary soul and never mixed with the cast socially, even when we were all staying together at the same hotel. Like a lot of comedians I have known, Benny seemed a sad person.
260-->-- '''Creator/MichaelCaine''' on the making of ''Film/TheItalianJob1969''
261
262->Being funny is not the same as being happy.
263-->-- '''Dana Gould'''
264
265->I adored Sammy, but he was wary of that kind of affection; He came with a lot of baggage. Onstage, he was a star. Offstage, he [[DudeWheresMyRespect had to use a maintenance door to get into his hotel room]] at night.
266-->--'''Alan King''' on Music/SammyDavisJr, ''Name Dropping''
267
268->With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
269-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln'''
270
271->Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
272-->-- '''Creator/ChrisRock'''
273
274->...look at the blood on the man’s hands. 900 years, countless very selfish choices, and he’s literally blown planets up. His own race, you know, that’s all on his hands. Which is why I think he has to make silly jokes and wear a fez. Because if he didn't, he’d hang himself.
275-->-- '''Creator/MattSmith''', on [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]]
276
277->The secret source of all humor is sorrow.
278-->-- '''Creator/MarkTwain'''
279
280->One night a few years after "''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles''" was released, I came upon Creator/JohnCandy (1950-1994) sitting all by himself in a hotel bar in New York, smoking and drinking, and we talked for a while. We were going to be on the same TV show the next day. He was depressed. People loved him, but he didn't seem to know that, or it wasn't enough. He was a sweet guy and nobody had a word to say against him, but he was down on himself. All he wanted to do was make people laugh, but sometimes he tried too hard, and he hated himself for doing that in some of his movies. I thought of Del. There is so much truth in the role that it transforms the whole movie. [[Creator/JohnHughes Hughes]] knew it, and captured it again in ''Film/OnlyTheLonely'' (1991). And Creator/SteveMartin knew it, and played straight to it.
281-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-planes-trains-and-automobiles-1987 on]] ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles''
282
283->If you can, make your depression look like this street. Bleak and rainy but there’s music and art, and even comedy hiding in its lonely cafes and you can use those to escape.
284-->-- '''Creator/PattonOswalt'''
285[[/folder]]

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