"Creator. A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh."
— Laughter

January 1, 1970

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Added on April 10, 2026
Unverified quote
0 likes
DiscourseEmotionsComedy
Original Language: English

Sources

H.L. Mencken, in A Book of Burlesques‎ (1920), p. 203. and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), Ch. 30; a paraphrase of this has become misattributed to Voltaire: