make em laugh make em laugh don t you know everyone wants to laugh my dad said be an actor my son but be a comical one they ll be standing in lines for those old honky tonk monkeyshines you can study shakspeare and be quite elite you could charm the critics and have nothing to eat just slip on a banana peel the world s at you feet make em laugh make em laugh make em laugh make make em laugh don t you know everyone wants to laugh my grandpa said go out and tell them a joke but give it plenty of hoke make em roar make em scream take a fall butt a wall split a seam you could start by pretending your a dancer with grace then you wiggle till they re giggling all over the place then you get a great big custard pie in the face make em laugh make em laugh make em laugh make em what my dad they ll be standing in lines for those old honky tonk monkeyshines make em laugh make em laugh make em laugh make em laugh 1