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   Now, you can study Shakspeare and be quite elite   And you could charm the critics and have nothing to eat   Just slip on a banana peel, the world's at your 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 hope"   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!