Humor Quote by Stephen Colbert

Fear is what makes comedy funny.

— Paul Rudd

“To , nothing is more frightful than laughter.”

— Anonymous

“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should…

— Abraham Lincoln

Comedy strikes a fear in me like nothing else.

— Gareth Evans

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”

— Voltaire

“And it seemed to me, too, that I've always been afraid when I was in the company of people…afraid of saying something stupid…afraid of…

— L.M. Montgomery

What holds you back in comedy is fear.

— Sinbad

My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate…

— Ben Miller

“Do not laugh too much at your fellows. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.”

— Umberto Eco

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.

— Marco Roth

“I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me,…

— Jane Austen

“We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.”

— Lois Lowry