"we make them laugh but we can’t make them happy"

Just something that caught my eye from this interesting interview with Maurice LaMarche. LaMarche is a voice actor with about six dozen credits, you can hear him on

• Futurama as Kif and a bunch of others
• The Critic as Jeremy Hawke and most of the celebrity impersonations
• Pinky & the Brain as a certain little mouse who wants to "Try to take over the world! Yes!"
  
  Anyway, he also used to be a standup and good friends with Sam Kinison, which is where this story comes from.

  We both had gotten quite smashed one night, and Sam was actually very sad. He was actually in tears. His girlfriend was consoling him because he was wondering about whether what we did meant anything. And he said, “Maurice, we help people, don’t we? We make ‘em happy?” And I said, “No Sam, we make them laugh but we can’t make them happy.” He went, “Yeah, yeah,” and he kept balling because he really felt like his life was meaningless. (laughing) Mr. Cheerful helping Sam out! But it’s the reality. There’s a huge difference between fun and happiness. Fun is momentary. Fun happens in little short spurts and then it’s over.