Kate O'Brien Quotes

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

I've always found the world funny and enjoy laughing at it, and that's what all comedians do.

I can see humor in almost anything.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

I love The Onion videos, those are amazing.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

For me, humor is everything!