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Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

—Marty Feldman, 1969

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

—Catullus, c. 60 BC

Big head, little wit.

—French proverb

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

—Philip Sidney, 1582

Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.

—Henry Peacham, 1622
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