Planet Funny Quotes

“Something can be important without being serious.”
― Ken Jennings, Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture

“An Orwellian world is much easier to recognize, and to oppose, than a Huxleyan,” he wrote. “Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . [but] who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements?”
― Ken Jennings, Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture

“Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn, solemn as an ass. All the great monuments of earth have been built over solemn asses.

- Thomas Corwin”
― Ken Jennings, Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture