CREATOR: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
A Book of Burlesques, ch. 11 “The Jazz Webster” (1921)
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Source)
Later
included in
A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30 (1949). Sometimes misattributed to
Voltaire.
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