Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969
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There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCWit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945