It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.
We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.
Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.