Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life.

Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life.

A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it read more

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival read more

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, read more

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes read more

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already read more

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded