Horace Quotes

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.

The secret of comedy is enjoying it. If you're not laughing, it's not going to be funny.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

True wit never made us laugh.