Top Comics Make Us Laugh and Bank Millions In The Process

We all love to laugh. In fact we invest lots of our time and pay good money to laugh. Books, movies, DVD’s, television, stand up and more all add up to millions of chuckles and millions of dollars to the top comics.

Being funny is a good gig if you can get it according to Forbes magazine list of highest-paid comedians.

For the fourth year in a row JERRY SEINFELD tops the list with estimated earnings of $36-million dollars coming predominately from the earnings from his syndicated TV show, along with live tours and the web series, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee."

10. Dave Chappelle, $7.5 million
9. British comedian John Bishop, $8 million
8. Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias, $8.5 million
7. Louis C.K., $9 million
6. "Parks and Recreation" star Aziz Ansari, $9.5 million
4. (tie) Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham and Canadian Russell Peters, $19 million each
3. "America's Got Talent" winner Terry Fator, $21.5 million
2. "Get Hard," "Think Like a Man Too" and "The Wedding Ringer" star Kevin Hart, $28.5 million
1. Jerry Seinfeld, $36 million