But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny…

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting…

— Steve Coogan

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

— George Bernard Shaw

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I think the reason I became funny was because if I made people laugh, they would let me keep talking.

— Anthony Jeselnik

“It’s a simple premise: follow the leads that arise from contact with the work itself, and your technical, emotional and intellectual pathway becomes clear.”

— David Bayles

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

— Barack Obama

“Every good story starts with a simple premise. This one begins with the notion of survival. The determination to live is both instinctive and…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and…

— Justin Trudeau

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be…

— Ronald Reagan

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

— Dorianne Laux

The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something…

— Kaitlin Olson

'When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. When you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.'

— Nora Ephron

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

— Tina Fey

I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that…

— Max Lucado