Stan Laurel Quotes

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

I am a walking joke.

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

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

Everything can be satirized.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

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

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

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

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

You can make fun of everything.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.