
“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 38-39.
Misattributed
“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
“Man, when he realizes that he is an object of comedy, does not laugh.”
El hombre, cuando sabe que es una cosa cómica, no ríe.
Voces (1943)
Parade interview http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_09-23-2007/AStephen_Colbert (23 September 2007)
Variant: You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
Context: 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.
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/napoleon-dynamite-2004 of Napoleon Dynamite (18 June 2004)
Reviews, One-and-a-half star reviews
On his show Sunnyside in “Kal Penn Talks Putting A Twist On Immigration Narrative With ‘Sunnyside’ & Chances For Another ‘Harold And Kumar’ Movie” https://deadline.com/2019/09/kal-penn-sunnyside-nbc-immigration-comedy-harold-and-kumar-1202743466/ in Deadline (2019 Sep 26)
On Comedy
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/03/anchor-woman
Source: All About Me (New York: Ballantine Books, 2021), p. 451