Funny Quote by John Hunter

A voice like this doesn’t catalog so much as whip a room into being. John Hunter’s breathless roll call of ages - “young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young” - is less demographic data than a performance of abundance. The phrasing keeps tripping over itself, as if ordinary categories can’t contain what he’s claiming. That’s the point: the speaker wants you to feel scale before you can verify it.

The subtext is classic showman logic: if everyone was there, then what happened there mattered. Repetition (“they were there, they were there!”) works like a drumbeat, turning attendance into proof, excitement into evidence. It’s also a quiet act of authority. By naming the crowd in cartoonish extremes, he positions himself as the reliable witness to a public moment - the person close enough to see it all, bold enough to summarize it as “everything.”

Contextually, it fits the 18th century’s expanding culture of public spectacle and lecture: theaters, demonstrations, civic gatherings where social mixing was itself part of the thrill. Hunter’s line reads like someone marveling at - or selling - the new fact of mass audiencehood. The joke tucked inside “younger than young” is that the description is impossible, but the exaggeration flatters the event and the speaker alike. It’s hype with a wink: not accurate, not meant to be, and strangely persuasive because it captures what crowds feel like from the inside - limitless, self-validating, and hungry to be counted.