Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

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.

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

Another day gone and no jokes.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time - of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

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

It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

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.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

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

True wit never made us laugh.

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

I love people who make me laugh!