CREATOR: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30 (1949)

Sometimes attributed to Voltaire.

Added on 6-May-08 | Last updated 15-Apr-09
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