Always Leave Them Laughing is a 1949 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Milton Berle and Virginia Mayo.

[2] Comic Kip Cooper meets aspiring showgirl Fay Washburn at a second rate hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where he does his unoriginal act in exchange for room and board.

[4] Berle had a reputation for stealing jokes, although he told The New York Times that it was he who started the rumor during a feud with comedian Richie Craig Jr. that was designed "to keep their names in the newspapers.

[7] Two sketches — "The Tank," where a fountain pen is demonstrated under water, and "Noises on the Street" — were purchased from the 1948 Broadway revue "Make Mine Manhattan" for the film.

"[12] Newsweek said that Bert Lahr, "even in his relatively small part...succeeds in pointing out the difference between comic genius of the old school and Berle's ubiquitous but largely imitative talent.