Rachel Parris Quotes

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

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

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

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

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

I don't mean to be funny.

Jokes are grievances.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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

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