Humor Quotes

 

A day without laughter is a day wasted.|Charlie Chaplin

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.|Mark Twain

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.|e. e. cummings

Everything is funny as long as it’s happening to somebody else.|Will Rogers

If I had no sense of humor  I would long ago have committed suicide.|Mahatma Gandhi

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.|Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is an instant vacation.|Milton Berle

Like a welcome summer rain         humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth the air and you.|Langston Hughes

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain        comedy and tragedy            humor and hurt.|Erma Bombeck

From there to here    and here to there      funny things are everywhere.|Dr. Seuss

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.|William Arthur Ward

The secret to humor is surprise.|Aristotle

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.|E. B. White

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing           moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense          dancing.|Clive James

It’s a funny old world.|Margaret Thatcher

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.|Mignon McLaughlin

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.|Victor Borge

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.|James Thurber

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.|Peter Ustinov

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.|Lou Holtz

It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.|Bill Hicks

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.|Edward de Bono

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable            even hopeful.|Bob Hope

Humor is just another defense against the universe.|Mel Brooks

Humor is reason gone mad.|Groucho Marx

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.|Michael J. Fox

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.|Hugh Sidey

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.|W. Somerset Maugham

It is the ability to take a joke          not make one           that proves you have a sense of humor.|Max Eastman

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.|Ellen DeGeneres

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important            others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.|Christopher Morley

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life           choose a sense of humor.|Jennifer Jones

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.|Frank A. Clark

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.|Virginia Woolf

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.|Woody Allen

I’m not funny. What I am is brave.|Lucille Ball

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.|Flip Wilson

Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.|Bill Nye

A joke’s a very serious thing.|Charles Churchill

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.|Lin Yutang

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.|Christopher Hitchens

A pun is the lowest form of humor            unless you thought of it yourself.|Doug Larson

A little perspective  like a little humor    goes a long way.|Allen Klein

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention        but it has no persuasive value at all.|John Kenneth Galbraith

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting       and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.|Washington Irving

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.|George Eliot

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous          but no sense of humor.|Edward Albee

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.|Leo Rosten

Nothing like a little judicious levity.|Robert Louis Stevenson

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.|Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We are            in the comics            the last frontier of good      wholesome family humor and entertainment.|Bil Keane

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.|Robert Frost

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.|Mark Twain

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.|Rainn Wilson

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic           so that came naturally to me.|Chevy Chase

Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.|Ambrose Bierce

Wit is the lowest form of humor.|Alexander Pope

Gags die         humor doesn’t.|Jack Benny

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor  for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.|Jessamyn West

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.|Bernard Williams

All I know about humor is that I don’t know anything about it.|Fred Allen

Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh.|Tom Lehrer

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.|Robert Benchley

One can never speak enough of the virtues          the dangers   the power of shared laughter.|Francoise Sagan

If it gets laughs         it’s funny.|Rachel Dratch

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time  you’ve created a special little thing           and that’s what I’m looking for  because if you get pompous          you lose everything.|Paul Simon

The more I live         the more I think that humor is the saving sense.|Jacob Riis

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources         which must be preserved at all cost.|James Thurber

Puns are a form of humor with words.|Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Women          as they grow older   rely more and more on cosmetics. Men   as they grow older   rely more and more on a sense of humor.|George Jean Nathan

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.|Allen Klein

In conversation         humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.|George Herbert

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.|Clifton Fadiman

One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.|Larry Gelbart

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.|W. Somerset Maugham

You can’t be funny if you don’t have good material.|Matt LeBlanc

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.|Mark Twain

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.|Oliver Goldsmith

Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.|Langston Hughes

When humor goes    there goes civilization.|Erma Bombeck

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.|Max Eastman

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?|Bob Hope

Humor distorts nothing       and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.|Agnes Repplier

I’ve learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!|Debbie Gibson

A humorist is a person who feels bad        but who feels good about it.|Don Herold

Humor comes from self-confidence.|Rita Mae Brown

Impropriety is the soul of wit.|W. Somerset Maugham

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.|Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.|Agnes Repplier

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.|Irvin S. Cobb

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.|Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Sometimes in the most tragic situation     something just profoundly funny happens.|David Hyde Pierce

Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger.|Allen Klein

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor           play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.|Robert Collier

My life is part humor           part roses      part thorns.|Bret Michaels

Keep your sense of humor  my friend; if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore.|Wavy Gravy

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.|Sam Walton

I have never believed much in luck           and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.|Hunter S. Thompson

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.|Ralph Fiennes

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany            that does not mean that people were not in good spirits or anything of that sort     but something much deeper and more important.|Ludwig Wittgenstein

As a person   he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented      of course       but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.|Priscilla Presley

You’ve got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.|Lance Bass

My father       Leo Henry Brown    really was talented – he could write. He had a gift          and he had a great sly humor.|Angie Dickinson

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.|Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wasn’t close to my father  but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor and he laughed all the time – good and loud         like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me            too     but we never had much time together.|Judy Garland

The book       ’12 Rules For Life    ‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life    and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.|Jordan Peterson

My wife is Swedish  so I’m familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It’s very dark and very deadpan.|Cory Barlog

A woman who knows that she doesn’t have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.|Benedict Cumberbatch

I met Woz when I was 13   at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was    like    the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends    because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.|Steve Jobs

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?|Dick Clark

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things   but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.|Bob Uecker

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety    if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.|Horatio Nelson

I’ve got a great sense of humor       and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat       that’s hugely flattering.|Matthew McConaughey

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.|Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.|Alfred North Whitehead

Basically        I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.|Arlo Guthrie

Humor is to get us over terrible things.|Ricky Gervais

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.|Thomas Browne

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.|Bobby Clarke

I want someone who can keep me on my toes     has a good sense of humor and a good heart.|Carmen Electra

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.|Charles Bukowski

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I’m talking about a writer’s critics  who don’t address what you’ve written    but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor          without any sense of context.|Wole Soyinka

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual         with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.|Anne Lamott

That is the saving grace of humor  if you fail no one is laughing at you.|A. Whitney Brown

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool and he had a dry sense of humor and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.|Jeff Bridges

Poor David Hume is dying fast      but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things       than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.|Adam Smith

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.|Eminem

In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there    a sense of humor     a man of few words and a lot of action.|Jeremy Renner

Humor is healing.|Brad Garrett

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner    and we just sort of became friends. He’s got such a wicked sense of humor.|Moby

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating    as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family  one that has its own laws    myths language       humor            its own loyalties and treacheries.|Jandy Nelson

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.|Harry S Truman

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.|H. L. Mencken

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.|William Gilmore Simms

I’m not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly   has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.|Naomi Judd

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.|Bernie Mac

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.|Malcolm Muggeridge

Humor            humility        and     of course       honesty         all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.|Cynthia P. Schneider

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.|Al Franken

I believe God too     has a sense of humor.|Keith Thurman

When humor works  it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.|Tina Fey

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor    and that he has never known trouble.|Sinclair Lewis

I wasn’t shy   but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.|Tyler            The Creator

I am often the brunt of my own humor.|Charles R. Swindoll

The thing that makes ‘Dirty Jobs’ different is that it’s one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn’t highlight the drudgery. Instead          it highlights the humor.|Mike Rowe

We do not take humor seriously enough.|Konrad Lorenz

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it     but it’s just not funny.|Issa Rae

Absurdity is what I like most in life          and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.|David Lynch

Humor is an antidote to all ills.|Patch Adams

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor          when they are smart            when they have some sense of style     when they are kind  when they express their own opinions     when they are creative    when they have character.|Suzanne Vega

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.|Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.|Tommy Lee Jones

Cynicism is humor in ill health.|H. G. Wells

What we’ve discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor.|Benny Hill

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise         it isn’t funny. It’s a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it’s not a surprise anymore.|Garrison Keillor

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense that’s how self-loathing is made palatable.|James Gray

Everybody I know who is funny    it’s in them. You can teach timing or some people are able to tell a joke    though I don’t like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.|Carol Burnett

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.|Kesha

Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor.|Bari Weiss

I think everyone is born with humor         but your life can beat it out of you            sadly  or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.|Catherine O’Hara

I love British humor. It’s just so – surreal.|Beck

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl’s sense of humor     it may be her wit            or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.|Jensen Ackles

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil           without disease and violence I’d be standing in the bread line – right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.|Lenny Bruce

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.|Jasper Johns

Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.|Ryan Paevey

To my mind   a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person’s humanity     no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.|Thomas Ligotti

We get the worrywart          the hypochondriac  the money-grubbing miser the intractable negotiator… Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical          or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.|Alan King

Funnily enough         I did a play called ‘Jumpy’ on the West End before I did ‘Divergent   ‘ and there was an essence of that character I played called Cam    in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability  and… he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity       similar to Will.|Ben Lloyd-Hughes

What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!|Calvin Klein

Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life believe me.|Angela Lansbury

Humor is an affirmation of dignity            a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.|Romain Gary

If you’re feeling blue            lock yourself in a room       stand in front of a mirror    and dance – and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you’ve ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.|Salma Hayek

God has a most wicked sense of humor.|Maureen O’Hara

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.|Umberto Eco

When we go to see comedians or funny movies  they don’t address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game’s first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor    drama or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean          it needs to be squeezed in around the game.|Doug TenNapel

I think God has a sense of humor   and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it’s a tough lesson.|Yvette Nicole Brown

Hope for the best      survive the worst     find humor wherever you can.|Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Americans are pragmatic    relatively uncomplicated   hearty and given to broad humor.|Herb Caen

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.|Tom Robbins

In my opinion           I think sarcasm and humor in a song        without turning it into a novelty song            is really charming.|Alanis Morissette

I’m not a traditional politician        and I have a sense of humor. I’ll try to soften it and become boring            maybe even very boring     but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to.|Silvio Berlusconi

I should say   one of the things about being a widow or a widower     you really     really need a sense of humor        because everything’s going to fall apart.|Joyce Carol Oates

Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside   in our subconscious it’s all surrealism. It’s all abstract. The world is the surrealism the absurdity the humor – it all just overlaps.|Weyes Blood

I’ve always had a sick sense of humor       and I’ve always wanted that to permeate the music because I don’t take myself seriously. I take the music seriously   but I know I’m not God’s gift to anyone except my mom.|Josh Homme

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.|Kate Beckinsale

I’ve used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It’s gotten me through a lot of challenging times.|Adam Rippon

I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn’t mean that we didn’t have our rough times      but they were remarkable people who were open-minded        creative and hard-working  and had great senses of humor.|Patti Smith

Professional comedians      surprisingly  have a lack of humor. They’re insensitive to the insanity of our times.|Mort Sahl

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.|Jason Bateman

I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.|Camille Grammer

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.|Richard Lederer

Since the very beginning     Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.|Anthony Bourdain

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine – very healing.|Max Irons

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival   as has been maintaining a sense of humor.|Stephen Hawking

Well    it’s a humor strip      so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader… But if            in addition    I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me            so much the better.|Garry Trudeau

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.|Ned Rorem

Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people’s defenses down   and once they’re down        you can discuss some really difficult topics.|Luvvie Ajayi

I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.|Ben Stiller

To me in life if you have a sense of humor about it       that’s how you deal with anything.|Ralph Macchio

As a kid         I loved ‘Godot’ because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness      but then as you get older it’s much more resonant.|Nathan Lane

It’s hard to force creativity and humor.|Al Yankovic

My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.|Billy Bob Thornton

People in real life don’t get ballplayers’ humor    the way we talk in the clubhouse.|Justin Verlander

The first ingredient in conversation is truth         the next good sense the third good humor          and the fourth wit.|William Temple

I like a very dry wit  not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don’t think I’m capable of that.|Chris Cooper

‘War on Everyone    ‘ I think… the script was hilarious to me    but it’s very dark      dark humor. It’s super dark.|Michael Pena

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.|Robertson Davies

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence   but confidence in a humble way    not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.|Victoria Beckham

I’m lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.|Cathy Guisewite

I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes  and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.|Steven Wright

Humor’s a weapon if you want to make it one.|Bob Newhart

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.|John Callahan

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact           reason is actually a very cheap commodity.|Edward de Bono

Humor can be an incredible           lacerating and effective weapon.|Carl Hiaasen

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do       we laugh. That’s a very real thing.|James Roday

Most humor comes from truth. In the end if I can laugh about it          who cares?|Bianca Del Rio

It’s great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.|Jon Favreau

I’m not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments        it’s true          but I do have a sense of humor.|Alan Moore

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.|Laura Ingraham

OK      in all seriousness     I would say I couldn’t be in a relationship without equality     generosity            integrity        spirit  kindness and humor. And awesomeness.|Jennifer Aniston

SpongeBob is a complete innocent – not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is. They’re whipping themselves up into situations – that’s always where the humor comes from.|Stephen Hillenburg

When a chick has a sense of humor           there’s nothing more attractive.|Dylan O’Brien

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage I think           that lead us from an innocent world of contentment          drunkenness and good humor      to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.|J. G. Ballard

You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.|Katie Nolan

We can’t understand when we’re pregnant            or when our siblings are expecting           how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood       genes humor. It means we were actually here          on Earth        for a time – like the Egyptians with their pyramids        only with children.|Anne Lamott

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them to expand the definition of reading to include humor            science fiction/fantasy       nonfiction     graphic novels         wordless books        audio books and comic books.|Jon Scieszka

Well    I mean           if a joke or humor is bawdy           it’s got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can’t just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that – it’s got to be funny.|Betty White

Humor            for me            is really a gate of departure. It’s a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself        but a means to an end.|Billy Collins

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.|Judith Leiber

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator’s place and laugh at his own misfortune.|Bert Williams

If you stop and think about it          nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.|Alan King

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A        that it was a vacuum of creativity       of humor or anything organic        and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different – I love L.A.!|Naomi Watts

Always have a sense of humor about life – you’ll need it – but always be courteous to boot.|Peter Jennings

Jon Stewart    Bill Maher    Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.|Grace Slick

We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.|Steve Allen

With humor   it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.|Calvin Trillin

My humor isn’t meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it’s to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.|Charlyne Yi

I think it’s part of the responsibility of an artist to shock            to upset         to make people think differently     and to surprise people. And that’s where the good humor is     if there’s a surprise and there’s something unexpected. Something that’s not normal      not in the realm of general living expectations.|Bill Plympton

With Portlandia        I don’t think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We’re okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.|Carrie Brownstein

Working on newspapers     you’re writing to a certain length  often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor – women can’t drive      things like that. That’s about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.|Tom Wolfe

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer         ‘Breakfast of Champions’ is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.|Justin Halpern

I’m a bug on acting   which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character        the behavior and not from the jokes. I don’t think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.|Bernard Sahlins

I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career and I think that’s really a great thing.|Kara Hayward

Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.|Clay Clark

There are so many things to talk about between black people   Hispanic people       white people gay people men    women          it’s all based on fear. We all have fears    this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up        but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.|Marlon Wayans

If you’re playing a good guy           you show some darkness. If you’re playing a dark guy  you show something different  like humor    that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience’s expectations. What I’m battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.|Campbell Scott

It’s our most underrated value        I think           as human beings is our sense of humor. It’s how we choose our friends.|Philip Rosenthal

‘Sit Here and Cry’ was one of the first songs I wrote with that overdramatic sarcastic dry sense of humor            which is why the energy of the song doesn’t necessarily reflect the subject matter.|Aubrie Sellers

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia        and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.|Connie Nielsen

Somebody says         ‘Do a Tom Bodett    a folksy kind of thing          ‘ and it sounds like something out of ‘Hee Haw   ‘ very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm           and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.|Tom Bodett

For me            I really love ‘Tim and Eric’ and ‘Dr. Steve Brule’ and a lot of the Adult Swim shows            so I like strange       weird sometimes slightly upsetting humor.|Gillian Jacobs

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.|Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I don’t need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It’s very much about style and substance and humor        interest          curiosity and really being smart.|Kate Walsh

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life  problems and terrors.|Bill Forsyth

I think in life the sense of humor and comedy always exists.|Mike Epps

Sense of humor. A girl who doesn’t take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They’re the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.|Christopher Egan

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am… a dry sense of humor.|Bob Newhart

It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.|Margaret Cho

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue          once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone’s eyes. Maurice loved what he did    so. He treated his character with respect down to the costuming.|Madeleine Stowe

I have been a big fan of the ‘Fast and the Furious’ franchise. The films are fast-paced         fun and keep the audience involved. There is a great mix of humor and action            something I really appreciate.|Tony Jaa

Everybody’s got a different sense of humor. It’s just different styles.|Colin Quinn

But if you read Jane Austen            you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny  but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.|Seth Grahame-Smith

A strong sense of humor     a really awesome personality        and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.|Elizabeth Gillies

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself      he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.|E. B. White

It is quite true            as some poets said   that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor        creating him a reasonable being   yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture   and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.|D. H. Lawrence

The people in New York – their humor is on a level that goes   uh       very deep      you know?|Elaine Stritch

Let’s not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical      no matter how you dish it out. It’s timing           like a dancer or an athlete would have.|Chevy Chase

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don’t tend to take themselves too seriously.|Dan Auerbach

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.|Hattie McDaniel

I’m just very amused by five-year-old humor.|Kesha

The people I mixed with in Monaco didn’t relate to my South African mentality or humor… Although I have met some wonderful people since I’ve been living in Monaco  I regard them all as acquaintances. I only have two people I consider friends here.|Charlene        Princess of Monaco

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.|Danny McBride

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.|Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know      my grandmother was very funny.|Paul Mooney

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.|Carl Hiaasen

I think ‘Country Girl’ is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.|Luke Bryan

They don’t make you pay for the humor. It’s up and down         but they’re trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.|Mike Judge

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain  normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked           like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.|Antonio Banderas

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I’m smarter than most white people      which is kind of a Jewish thing   too.|Jim Goad

I’m happy to say that at 62  I think I’ve reached that point where stuff doesn’t bother me as much and my gratitude level has gone way up          especially having gone through the loss that I’ve had    and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.|Bonnie Raitt

It doesn’t take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.|Scott Adams

Down the road          I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on  and humor.|Alanis Morissette

In sitcoms      the women are so beautiful understanding and well-bred. They have humor but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there’s no juice in that for me.|Bea Arthur

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies    but there’s comedy in them from time to time    absurdities    just like in real life.|David Lynch

In building a management team     I look for integrity   loyalty           vision and a willingness to think outside of the box     and challenge the status quo. I also look for people who have a good sense of humor and who value and empower their team.|Shari Redstone

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I’m talking about or not.|John Hodgman

A lot of people into Tool     for some reason       are not interested in humor.|Maynard James Keenan

My dad is just like everybody else’s dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him      but he always gets me. I emulate him because I’ve never seen anyone work as hard as he does.|Peter Uihlein

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown      and to date girls       I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin       I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.|Kurt Fuller

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor  but not for their folly.|Jonathan Swift

Life is tragic comedy           in a way. There is humor.|Tcheky Karyo

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you’re poking fun at someone or something         there’s still an affection for it.|Bob Newhart

We’re all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we’ve got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of         ‘Hey   we’re all screwed up and but for the grace of God            none of us have a shot here.’ We need to have a sense of humor about it; that’s kind of the way I’ve always faced my comedy.|Jeff Foxworthy

My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs            witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again      and say: ‘That’s so funny.’ John Prine’s songs have always had this really witty tone.|Kacey Musgraves

I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.|Nipsey Russell

I can’t not put humor in a book.|Albert Brooks

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.|Alan King

I’ve got a sense of humor. I’m a funny guy.|Daryl Hall

Humor can inform and break down stigma           which is a huge issue in the military.|Garry Trudeau

It never seems to occur to some people    that    like beauty   a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.|Edgar Rice Burroughs

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there’s even a place for humor in that.|Alan Thicke

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we’re ‘dead earnest       ‘ humor is the only thing that is dead.|Flip Wilson

Jazz can be so serious          no sense of humor.|Chad Smith

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity  no humor      no overstatement can quite extinguish            the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.|J. Robert Oppenheimer

Humor is a part of spirituality.|Zooey Deschanel

My father was a very strong male figure to me as a child. He was very dashing        had a wonderful sense of humor and was romantically handsome in the Scott Fitzgerald genre.|Mariette Hartley

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.|Jack Germond

Our characters act silly        even totally ridiculous at times     and most of our jokes don’t come out of pop cultural references. It seems like we’re aiming at a child audience           but everyone can laugh at the basic human traits that are funny. It’s playful the humor is playful            the world is playful. You can kind of let go.|Stephen Hillenburg

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life            and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.|Steven Wright

One of my favorite things about ‘Star Trek’ wasn’t just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.|J. J. Abrams

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.|James Thurber

Our records   if you have a dark sense of humor were funny   but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests    fantasy          confrontation and all that.|Ice Cube

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.|Ian Frazier

Humor and family emotions are integral to Telugu cinema.|Akhil Akkineni

I have this idyllic love life  but my mind just won’t accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.|Jen Kirkman

I love Sell Out           I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor   great songs   irony.|Roger Daltrey

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty      and his admonition that the Barry Eisler’s job is to tell the truth.|Barry Eisler

I think there’s a little confusion between humor and ‘gross’ passing for humor. That’s kind of regrettable            because they aren’t the same thing.|Bob Newhart

I think it’s critical     a sense of humor. It did help me – it does help me         continuously.|Teri Garr

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach           but it must do both if it would live forever.|Mark Twain

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it’s humor that’s often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.|Danny Boyle

I don’t think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn’t sound like the kind of thing I’d do.|Tommy Lee Jones

The first glass is for myself the second for my friends  the third for good humor    and the forth for my enemies.|William Temple

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It’s the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children’s books.|Berkeley Breathed

Incongruity    they say         is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it’s because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don’t know.|Emmett Kelly

I don’t really have a type. I don’t want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he’s got to have some sort of sense of humor   which is so hard to find in a guy. He’s got to be a bit smart.|Zara Larsson

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition         and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.|Dean Koontz

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard  and work has to be a really interesting    fun place. And that has to start at the top.|Carol Bartz

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know     but I do know that when they do   I keep them as close as I possibly can.|Joss Whedon

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.|Charles Grodin

Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson    because they are intelligent            talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life – acting            school and everything else.|Kara Hayward

Any film which views the darker side of life       which is death with a sense of humor       is very much to my taste.|Carter Burwell

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor but not dirty humor.|Betty White

Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them         they can be really    really powerful.|Sandra Bullock

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties     humor is the Teflon coating.|Laurel Lea

Humor is very healing.|Bonnie Hunt

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it    no one can bring you down.|Zac Efron

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter       but in still smiles     which lie far deeper.|Thomas Carlyle

I think I have always had a little humor.|Marilyn Monroe

If I can’t see the humor in it how am I going to be funny?|Casey Affleck

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.|Freeman Dyson

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.|Herman Wouk

To this day    I’ve found that it doesn’t matter what a guy looks like if he’s really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand  you don’t hear men saying ‘No she’s not pretty but is she ever funny!’|Catherine O’Hara

Love   as wonderful and horrible as it is  has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.|Tim O’Brien

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it ‘arm around the shoulder’ humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It’s mean  mean stuff.|Robert Orben

I’ve always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor  but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I’ve never tried to attach myself to that.|Cass McCombs

You may not like the humor           but that is why every radio has an on-off button.|Mel Karmazin

My books are shelved in different places depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section         sometimes in the Humor department       and occasionally even in the Literature aisle          which is somewhat astounding.|Carl Hiaasen

I’ve always been really dark           and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced   and I don’t say anything for shock value.|Amy Schumer

I’m interested in humor       and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They’re accessible to everyone      and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers    I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.|Anne Taintor

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor      since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions         but the humor process is involved in changing them.|Edward de Bono

Sometimes I used to think to myself         ‘Have I lost a sense of humor?’ but I don’t think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people         but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.|Kenneth Branagh

There’s always a source for humor.|Calvin Trillin

Good humor isn’t a trait of character         it is an art which requires practice.|David Seabury

There’s a charm        there’s a rhythm       there’s a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform           I told him      ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’|Alan King

As far as humor goes           I’ve always been a very insecure person and I’ve always wanted to be liked.|Peter Steele

A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good    I suppose            but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.|Dav Pilkey

Back in 2004 Kellie Overbey handed me her play ‘Girl Talk’ to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.|Carrie Preston

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin     usually in solitude.|Frank Muir

Humor has been the balm of my life         but it’s been reserved for those close to me         not part of the public Lana.|Lana Turner

I don’t know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there’s a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That’s kind of regrettable.|Bob Newhart

There’s something very authentic about humor   when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can’t pretend to be funny.|Billy Collins

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality sensibility      sense of humor        behavior. He is me.|Marilyn Manson

The humor section is the last place an David Sedaris wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.|David Sedaris

As I write       I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony    and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.|Enrique Vila-Matas

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.|Carmen Electra

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they’re bringing irony back into American humor            which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he’s not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well           but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he’s completely that way.|John Lydon

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor            because humor is unanalyzable. You can’t analyze humor. You just have to get through it.|Elaine Stritch

Democratic politicians have disliked things I’ve written Republican politicians… if they all love you            you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.|Adam Clymer

I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor   with love.|Bernie Mac

You can find heroism everyday     like guys working terrible jobs because they’ve got to support their families. Or as far as humor            the things I see on the job  on the street  are far funnier than anything you’ll ever see on TV.|Harvey Pekar

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music     a lot more than other genres.|Carrie Brownstein

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That’s the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it’s not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There’s always a story that’s somewhat fantastical.|Thom Browne

I didn’t think that anything is beyond humor – not profane humor        but a good     honest approach to humor.|Mort Sahl

Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction           humor            graphic novels         magazines      action adventure      and     yes     even websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever.|Jon Scieszka

My favorite kind of humor is basically     if it was happening to you  it wouldn’t be funny but to observe it       it’s hilarious.|Bill Burr

I used to be neurotic. I didn’t like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s           my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.|Joanne Woodward

People I guess           generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on ‘The Daily Show’… I don’t think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.|John Oliver

I really wouldn’t want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there      simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.|Jonny Lee Miller

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load     I think           by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It’s easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.|Alan Thicke

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.|Nancy Cartwright

I certainly didn’t say while writing ‘Gossip Girl   ‘ ‘Oh this is going to be big!’ It was really like     ‘Oh god      everyone’s gong to hate these people! They’re so bratty!’ But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.|Cecily von Ziegesar

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting          unfriendly place.|Bob Newhart

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.|Michael J. Fox

Joe Barbera’s s always complaining that he can’t get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You’ve got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?|John Kricfalusi

You hear people say ‘We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.’ It’s full of humor! Not to laugh is a big           bad mistake!|Ruby Dee

I’d probably describe my sense of humor as ‘twisted      ‘ I guess. It’s not hard to make me laugh   especially when I’m surrounded by my close friends     especially my bandmates.|Mac DeMarco

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic            very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don’t have with words.|Marjane Satrapi

My legacy would be that you don’t have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor            you can be sexy but comfortable  you can be timeless but fresh.|Michael Kors

Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That’s an important thing to have because when you get into an argument       one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don’t want to hide away from a point because some points are serious   but you’d rather have a discussion that was a discussion            rather than an argument.|Ed Sheeran

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.|Bob Newhart

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was        because I was never that into animation before and when I watched ‘Shrek’ I really laughed out loud.|Cheryl Hines

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me  the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.|Matt Groening

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female   but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.|Cathy Guisewite

It’s an amusing idea to some           this feminism thing – this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy            as men. At least       that’s the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.|Roxane Gay

You know      I’m Australian          and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.|Steve Irwin

Bathroom humor      fart     and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It’s a pretty easy audience            and that’s been around for ages.|Selma Blair

It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers psychologists           or anyone else actually has paid to humor.|Edward de Bono

Prior to Wordsworth humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean    they don’t call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.|William Collins

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader            a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter            and there is hope.|James Howe

There is also this benefit in brag    that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means      draw it all out           and hold him to it.|Miguel de Cervantes

If this humor be the safety of our race      then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.|William Howard Taft

A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor     I guess.|Ron White

You can defeat fear through humor           through pain through honesty      bravery         intuition            and through love in the truest sense.|John Cassavetes

Nobody enjoys the ‘little show about nothing’ humor more than me    but that is never the way I look at it.|Jerry Seinfeld

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh  so that helps a lot.|Peter Dinklage

There’s a certain type of character that you can’t help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie         heart  and a wise guy sense of humor.|Steve Buscemi

Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact  humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.|Lee Corso

There’s not too much Edge in Adam Copeland   but there’s a little bit of my sarcasm and my sense of humor I guess           but I’m not a sleazy raving maniac like the character of Edge could be.|Edge

Comedy is still alive and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.|Robert Klein

I like a man who can be a real friend        has a good sense of humor a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.|Victoria Beckham

I don’t think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change        but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.|Adam McKay

I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There’s a bunch of jokes I use      and if she doesn’t get them         she’s probably not for me.|Matthew Perry

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.|Allen Klein

Colombian humor is very black     very sarcastic.|Barbet Schroeder

I don’t indulge in double meaning humor.|Sajid Khan

Political correctness? In my humor           I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.|Don Rickles

Often people write stories about people who are suffering        and they’re miserable all the time. That’s not the case. You go to the food bank or wherever and there’s laughter           there’s comedy            there’s stupidity       there’s silliness and warmth. And that’s the reality of people’s lives. If you cut out that sense of humor and warmth   you miss the point.|Ken Loach

I don’t really like using ridicule as a form of humor.|Alison Jackson

My sense of humor is a turkey       and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.|Tracy Morgan

I have a dark sense of humor.|Olivia Munn

I liked the humor of it          I’ve always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.|Amber Tamblyn

Humor is such a wonderful thing   helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.|Lynda Barry

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally       there are exceptions… the Jewish  Italian            and Irish humor of the East Coast.|Colin Firth

I don’t know if I realized that I was funny but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.|Bonnie Hunt

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.|John Lithgow

My senior year of high school        I was voted ‘Wittiest.’ So    several years later   I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.|Barbara Park

I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial real things to life.|Steve Buscemi

My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies   and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.|Tony Visconti

I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!|Trixie Mattel

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define         very hard. And it’s very ambiguous. You have it          or you don’t. You can’t attain it.|Heinrich Boll

I think it’s important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life       with the darkest       scariest            most intense moments        if you can find something funny   that’s good.|Katie Lowes

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities          his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.|Paul McCartney

And I would be the first to admit that probably   in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching      indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.|Bobby Knight

I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally       so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally.|Wallace Shawn

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.|Craig Ferguson

But it also became the experience or was the experience         of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They’re all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.|Norman Lear

Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He’s just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don’t see anything twisted about it. It’s sort of ridiculous and wacky. It’s sort of fun.|Christopher Lloyd

Even celebrities        most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we’ve done on the show   like it.|Matt Stone

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life           yeah   I guess so. I guess some do political humor            some do topical humor       but the ones that I like            the ones that are appealing to me  were guys who were just talking to you about their life.|Ray Romano

I think that ‘Saving Grace’ is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.|Holly Hunter

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn’t. It focuses on facts.|Sarah Silverman

In a way         a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses           having people denying the drama by failing to react to it        and that’s a really classic form of humor.|Chuck Palahniuk

I’m not for gratuitous nudity           but if there’s humor I don’t have a problem.|Rebecca Romijn

Newspaper people    once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun     have of late lost all their gaiety    and small wonder.|Russell Baker

I find any sort of acting that doesn’t have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. ‘Serious acting’ is the kind of acting that I don’t ever respond to.|Andrew Scott

We are really living the American dream to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don’t take ourselves too seriously in fashion.|Tommy Hilfiger

I think in our darkest moments      you have to find the humor            and you have to find the lightness.|Corey Hawkins

Sometimes     I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.|Ted Lieu

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he’s a true artist. He’s not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist        and I also think he’s got an amazing sense of humor.|Jemima Kirke

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating        and it also gives you power.|Josh Tillman

My humor was Victorian – and still is.|Mort Sahl

Sure    I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly    though           I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads – I just write it.|Kara Swisher

Everyone needs an escape  whether that is through music or humor. My personal escape is through both of those things so I thought why not combine them? But not in a cringe way    I don’t want to make parody songs. I just want my music to have a humorous edge to it.|Ashnikko

I don’t have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny           that humor comes from a much gentler place.|Vera Farmiga

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self     the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too       but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.|Colin Farrell

I’ll speak for myself but there’s a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic      they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.|Nicolas Cage

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I’m still looking for that.|Michelle Williams

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain    but I was only there for six months and we moved to Belgium  where I grew up.|Frank Oz

I often have said that to be a college president    you need a thick skin          a good sense of humor            and nerves like sewer pipes.|Gordon Gee

You don’t necessarily equate me with humor!|Sean Bean

Set your compass to beauty humor            and grief; stay the course no matter what and I’ll support you with everything I’ve got.|Chris Jordan

If the blood humor is too strong and robust         calm it with balance and harmony.|Xun Kuang

I’ve always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.|Vince Vaughn

I still haven’t found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it          so no jokes about that yet.|Adam DeVine

When I did stand-up at U.C.B.        and I had a blog for a couple of years that started my writing career            ‘Totally Confident and Completely Insecure       ‘ it was the same kind of self-deprecating humor and stories about being out in L.A. and being treated like a loser at a hair salon because you are not famous.|Erin Foster

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.|Steve Allen

Any good humor is sophomoric. ‘Sophomoric’ is the liberal word for funny.|Michael O’Donoghue

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy         but he was also a great guy great sense of humor a real dedicated dad. I don’t think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.|Denis Leary

Humor’s an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.|Jen Lancaster

My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out     that’s when they’re probably the funniest. They have to be. That’s what they do to cope      to find joy     ’cause they don’t feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.|Daniel Kaluuya

There’s plenty of room for humor in politics       God knows   but it’s a serious business.|Al Franken

Sometimes Americans don’t quite get my sense of humor. My good ol’ British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.|Lee Westwood

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny            or someone else does          it’s more like you wait for the piece.|Ian Frazier

I think bands when they’re on the road    they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.|Ric Ocasek

I was a precocious only child         and then I went through a fat         awkward stage for several years            so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It’s how you survive           so I think it was more of a natural progression for me   developing into comedy.|Ari Graynor

I have a good sense of humor. I’m confident       passionate and honest. I’m a people person.|Maryse Mizanin

I definitely have a dark sense of humor    and in ways I think that comes from having a lot of childhood trauma – a little bit    not fully.|Patti Harrison

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.|Allen Klein

It’s funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They’re usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other            more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.|Sloane Crosley

Well    the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war       is not a disease        not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.|Jonathan Winters

A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people       and humor can really help you do that.|Linda Sanchez

There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting       and so I try to couch it with humor.|Al Franken

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor       and he had a very special   characteristic laugh that you always recognized – if he went to watch a theater show     ‘Ah! He is here tonight.’|Max von Sydow

Because I was a television writer for many years            I write very conversationally. I put things straight           and with a lot of humor.|Tracy McMillan

I think the humor      when applied in the right amount only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them     makes them stand out.|John Grant

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I’ve got a dry sense of humor.|Katie Price

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader’s defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.|William Collins

By employing a certain sense of humor    you essentially get more serious about things and show conflict more effectively than if you were overly dramatic or only violent because that’s a one-way approach that just forces audiences to watch something appalling.|Yorgos Lanthimos

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities a sense of humor     a sense of style        a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it’s true  I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.|Wentworth Miller

To me Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding    alternative therapies           and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty           and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.|Patti Davis

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor    I’m just gonna tell her         ‘Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they’ll have to hire you   they can’t really fire you     and you don’t have to produce that much. It’ll be awesome.’|Adam Carolla

So        I’ve got to have food           I’ve got to have humor. But these things are just the way in to what the show’s really about        I think           which is connecting with the people.|Philip Rosenthal

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.|Al Franken

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don’t think it’s funny when people wink at the camera. That’s more of an actor thing        just committing to whatever the thing is.|Topher Grace

I’m really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.|Denis Leary

‘Vietnam Veedu’ is nothing if you compare Nagesh’s other works. He is the definition of humor in India.|Y. G. Mahendran

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.|Thomas Carlyle

Every time I’ve done comedy in     like    traditional comedy clubs    there’s always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they’re just    you know            doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing like    very kind of base sex humor a lot       and stuff like that.|Aziz Ansari

I don’t feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.|Gad Elmaleh

With my humor        I end up offending everybody!|Abhay Deol

Every black film feels like it’s Tyler Perry           and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there – ‘Is there something else besides this type of humor?’ ‘I’m tired of seeing men in dresses.’|Issa Rae

If you look at terrorists        they really have no sense of humor.|Al Franken

When I was doing research on the M.C.s and spending time with these cats  one of the things that struck me and made me realize that I could deliver this world to an audience was their really dark and acute sense of humor.|Kurt Sutter

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.|Lionel Trilling

Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews it doesn’t go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn’t expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn’t have Twitter.|Anna Kendrick

In prehistoric times  mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times   humor offers us a third alternative; fight flee – or laugh.|Robert Orben

I’ve met a lot of people who’ve lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.|Louis C. K.

I just try to write what I think would really happen        and with grief and tragedy there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that’s what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted     and happiness gets interrupted.|Kaui Hart Hemmings

The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.|Anthony McCarten

If I had to describe my sense of humor     I would say it’s contemporary wit you know what I’m saying?|Tracy Morgan

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he’s the real deal   supremely talented and smart. He’s got a great sense of humor.|Kevin Spacey

If I didn’t try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk      I would just be depressed all the time.|Lynda Barry

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh or that he can make you laugh?|Max Frisch

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.|Nelson DeMille

Congratulations        you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn’t: Go stick your head in the mud.|Jesse Ventura

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is ‘Harold and Maude.’|Leslie Mann

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed     he explained so he did not weep.|Doris Kearns Goodwin

Things are more complex today     and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.|Lewis Grizzard

So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor   I began to think of a name and the name “the Joker” immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards  and I probably yelled literally   ‘Eureka!’ because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.|Jerry Robinson

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.|Rod Stewart

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.|Steve Allen

A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.|Ruth Westheimer

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.|Jonathan Shapiro

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing’s funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.|Tom DeLonge

My stories are very somber so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides  life has so much humor.|Manuel Puig

That’s what kept us going – a sense of absurdity rather than humor.|Frank McCourt

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great     but I’d say it’s appealing to 80% men and 20% women.|Zooey Deschanel

People are wired for lots of things. We’re wired for novelty. We’re wired for humor. We’re wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We’re wired for fear.|Ramez Naam

I go out and speak to women’s groups all the time          and I say       ‘Guys you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.’|Vicki Lawrence

Sometimes I make myself laugh    but that’s because I appreciate my sense of humor.|Regina Hall

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.|Ted Danson

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is     and I always say it’s a sense of humor. If you’ve got nothing but a sense of humor         you will survive.|Phil Keoghan

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you’ll probably get the humor in the audio part.|Eric San

I’m a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away    she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It’s crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.|Amanda Peet

Comedy used to be a vehicle for change. Now    comedy has gotten to this quirky  nonsensical place            which I enjoy. But I do think there is room for discussion-based humor. We can tell those stories in a way that feels edifying.|Kenya Barris

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity           self-reliance a deep and ironic humor a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.|Shelby Steele

Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don’t work for me. I like to cover science and unexpected things happening in labs. Also   theoretical research doesn’t work for my style. I need scenes and interactions. Then    humor. I’m having the most fun when I can have fun with my work.|Mary Roach

I like an English sense of humor: dry        dirty   a little bit off. That’s kind of my taste.|Brooklyn Decker

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.|Loretta Swit

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.|Josh Bowman

I have five boys in the family         and it’s constant competition         sport  humor            and practical jokes.|Mitt Romney

I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall     inside and out.|Logan Henderson

People with no humor          they’re outta my life.|Patti LaBelle

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke       and I’m right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke    because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what’s coming   they won’t laugh as hard.|James Burrows

I used to hear on the radio people like Jack Benny or Bob Hope          but I never had any interest in their type of humor. I thought that I could do something more substantially meaningful with significant            thoughtful     analytical reflections on real life situations.|Jackie Mason

Expressing my adoration for ‘Chitralaya’ Gopu   the living legend of unadulterated humor has been in my mind for a while now. What better way to do it than bringing back his hit on stage.|Y. G. Mahendran

If you can appeal to another person’s sense of humor     you can introduce ideas     thoughts        things that they may disagree with or not believe in. At least they’ll listen.|Rocky Carroll

People are texting and smash into the car in front of them – I think there is some humor in that. And the virtual games. People are playing these virtual games    but they’re real – I mean      the people are really playing but it’s not a game.|Joe Walsh

Me and Matt love to argue  but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.|Trey Parker

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything          even poverty you can survive it.|Bill Cosby

If a dog doesn’t put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances           your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn’t happen you are only keeping an animal.|Enid Bagnold

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.|Alice Meynell

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.|Bill Cosby

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation’s history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.|Will Durst

I’m not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.|Anjelica Huston

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.|Suzanne Fields

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society     you’re funny.|Will Eisner

Comedy is so hard to do      so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.|Brittany Daniel

A boy is naturally full of humor.|Robert Powell

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.|Patricia Clarkson

If you look at the game and everything    it’s not quite like looking at an animated film     because that’s total character. This   this is really movement      but it’s got funny little things if you look for the humor. They’re actually getting to the character.|Don Bluth

I’ve had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.|Linda Gray

My family has been amazing          and they understand how blessed I am. They’ve been able to keep my sense of humor.|Karen Duffy

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.|Treat Williams

The President has a wonderful sense of humor    which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.|Karen Hughes

A lot of stars don’t have a sense of humor.|Kathy Griffin

It’s odd how violence and humor so often go together   isn’t it?|Dan Simmons

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it    from the Classics to modern plays to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.|Michael York

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.|Alton Brown

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny            not gross.|Shawn Wayans

You see          that’s another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.|Liza Minnelli

He was just trying to tease me – I knew that later – but he said he’d have to leave because it wasn’t fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor really.|Fay Wray

He has such a patronizing tone and manner         and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal  a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No  I think he came pretty much off the page.|Jeremy Northam

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship    we are two very different people  but we did share a sense of humor        we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.|Roger Moore

I mean yeah   I’m sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor          but I don’t think it’s all that different than the American sense of humor.|Simon Pegg

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best            which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.|Simon Pegg

And for my family   comedically that was the key to a lot of the humor.|Damon Wayans

The polls indicated that I was feisty          that I was tough       that I had a sense of humor but they weren’t quite sure if they liked me and they didn’t know whether or not that I was sensitive.|Geraldine Ferraro

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor         and it was supposed to be funny.|Jason Alexander

A farce           or slapstick humor  does well universally.|John Ratzenberger

Sure    the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs   but they’re uncomfortable laughs.|John Ratzenberger

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that        despite human failings          the Simpsons are really decent people.|Dan Castellaneta

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies            we eat pizza take walks     read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.|Lisa Loeb

Lesbian humor isn’t trying to sell anything          it doesn’t have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren’t    more women would do it.|Kate Clinton

I don’t think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don’t want to be a part of a show where it’s mostly about coming up with the jokes.|Sherilyn Fenn

Some major writers have a huge impact   like Ayn Rand          who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction but it really isn’t fiction at all.|Theodore Sturgeon

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing           Literary and Dramatic.|Shelley Berman

We’re starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations         and you can also have your own style    personality and sense of humor     because now we’re allowed to.|Lisa Guerrero

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.|Allen Klein

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.|Allen Klein

Whether planned or not       humor takes our mind off of our troubles.|Allen Klein

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.|Allen Klein

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff       I decided to discuss the events of the previous week     the pain all of us were feeling  and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.|Allen Klein

In looking for humor           keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.|Allen Klein

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas sometimes ten years.|Allen Klein

When you do find humor in trying times  one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them.|Allen Klein

Today’s business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks       pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone’s job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.|Allen Klein

When we can find some humor in our upsets      they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.|Allen Klein

I think up until the point when we started in the business          which was in the early ’70s most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.|David Zucker

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.|Terrence Howard

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.|Lorna Luft

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible as a contemporary poet.|Robert Morgan

Rock Hudson wasn’t my type. He’s a great guy and had a great sense of humor.|Tab Hunter

The script was just the best I’d read in a long time and I love the humor         which I wasn’t expecting            and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being      you know            protected from it.|Stephen Collins

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn’t take their formula and bring what I had   my humor     my ideas       and make it my own.|Dianne Wiest

Humor is imperative more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.|Doris Roberts

There’s a hysterical  tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.|Tom Berenger

I try to bring it across on my record          in my dress   in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I’m here for.|Bootsy Collins

I don’t have a very quick sense of humor.|Florenz Ziegfeld

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it’s in a funny movie and as long as they are cast in an appropriate way    humor will come from it.|Ivan Reitman

I don’t think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this        for better or for worse.|Ivan Reitman

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing      a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend         because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.|Dabney Coleman

Humor was not important only for me      humor was important for this nation for centuries         to survive           you know.|Milos Forman

Roosevelt’s humor was broad         his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy      none. What did he possess? Intuition        inspiration    love of adventure.|Emanuel Celler

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can       conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations           then let it be seen that way.|Patrick Warburton

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor        but I do not use irony in any way.|John Zorn

But if you don’t watch me   I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.|Marion Ross

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls’ point of view     I’ve heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.|Jason Biggs

Men love it. They have a sense of humor whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don’t get it.|Lara Flynn Boyle

I want everything I do to have humor in it           because it seems to me that all of life has that.|Lawrence Kasdan

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.|Ted Rall

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.|Shel Silverstein

It’s very hard to write humor.|Mark Strand

I don’t think humor is forced upon my universe; it’s a part of it.|Manuel Puig

I think it’s because it’s so different and it takes risks. Plus         it’s really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There’s no laugh track.|Sarah Chalke

I’ve got a great sense of humor.|Anthony Hopkins

Once we got over the origin story  we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart       more humor.|Avi Arad

I’ll do humor about myself  I’ll poke fun and everything           but that’s me and I can do it to me. I think it’s cruel to do it to somebody else.|Delta Burke

Bob Hope      like Mark Twain      had a sense of humor that was uniquely American        and like Twain we’ll likely not see another like him.|Dick Van Dyke

Those years on the golf course as a caddie           boy    those people were something. They were vulgar some were alcoholics         racist they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn’t have a sense of humor.|Martin Sheen

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.|Arthur Hailey

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they’re short stories       that theory of building suspense is still there.|Sergio Aragones

At NBC I wasn’t really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.|Tabitha Soren

I’ll let you in on a secret: I can’t stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It’s just a different style of humor.|John Kricfalusi

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor   and the proper fondness for his mother.|Patricia Highsmith

Humor is very very risky    particularly for a candidate unless he’s been in so long that it just doesn’t matter and he’s not running for president. But it’s just that people are so sensitive and so touchy  and you’re just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.|Mark Russell

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.|Dane Cook

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.|Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Men will confess to treason murder          arson false teeth     or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?|Frank Moore Colby

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness      but enables us to move back from it a little.|Mason Cooley

Maybe there’s a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.|Robert Altman

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.|Samuel Richardson

From sixteen to twenty        all women     kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions    appear to be good-natured.|Samuel Richardson

Anyone in the humor business isn’t thinking clearly if he doesn’t surround himself with idea people. Otherwise      you settle for mediocrity – or you burn yourself out.|Hank Ketcham

Through humor         you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter          no matter how painful your situation might be   you can survive it.|Bill Cosby

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins       or nearly all  save those worth committing.|Samuel Butler

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto     Calif. home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.|Walter Isaacson

I’m going to do a lot of weird stuff that’s not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it’s time to do different stuff        even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier    weirder stuff.|Andy Milonakis

With Ricky Gervais it’s all shades of wrong       it’s my kind of humor.|Emily Blunt

I don’t know if my sense of humor goes over Americans’ heads.|Ryan Kwanten

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor they’re going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery they might not like that book quite as much.|Janet Evanovich

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.|Janet Evanovich

We don’t appreciate the value of humor sometimes.|Janet Evanovich

The darker the film   the more vital everyone’s sense of humor is on set.|Eric Bana

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.|Rachael Ray

It’s continuously humbling to work hard  you know? As long as you’ve got a good work ethic and a sense of humor         I don’t think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.|Rachael Ray

Both conservatives and liberals watch ‘Parks and Recreation   ‘ and they each think the show is for them   which is really cool. ‘SNL’ was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you’re talking about.|Amy Poehler

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there’s some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff            just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.|Colm Meaney

As I get older my sense of humor is my biggest asset.|David Alan Grier

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America’s and juicier than Britain’s. I think it’s a cross between the two of them     really.|Scott Thompson

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.|Scott Thompson

You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time      you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.|John Krasinski

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor – a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can’t read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny       it doesn’t read that way.|Michael Buble

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry     and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but… I have a reputation of – people think of me as a very fundamentalist humorless fellow.|Ian MacKaye

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I’ve written         I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.|David Sedaris

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.|Robin Roberts

Every time I do a movie like ‘Finding Neverland’ or ‘Chocolat’ or ‘Shakespeare’ in Love     ‘ we deal with the creative process    but there’s humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.|Harvey Weinstein

There is nothing like the way people feel after they’ve seen ‘The Intouchables.’ They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It’s intelligent-feeling good. You’re not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It’s so smart and terrific.|Harvey Weinstein

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give ’em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side         they don’t like you as much. I find            too     that I can hide behind the idiot’s mask being funny          and you never see the sorrow or the pain.|Terry Bradshaw

Humor starts like a wildfire but then continues on         smoldering   smoldering for years.|Robert Orben

At the risk of appearing disingenuous      I don’t really think of myself as ‘writing humor.’ I’m simply reporting on the world I observe    which is frequently hilarious.|Richard Russo

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end        the comic’s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard.|Richard Russo

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny – partly because I experience discomfort a lot         and it’s a way of laughing at it and getting a release.|Joaquin Phoenix

There are different kinds of humor            some is sarcastic     some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.|Rita Rudner

There’s something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.|Connie Britton

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.|Connie Britton

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me – just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.|Dee Dee Myers

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.|Kurt Sutter

I can’t not find humor in elements of most parts of life  but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.|Greg Kinnear

I think I’ve learned that if you want to be successful      you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart – and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn’t hurt either.|Dorothea Benton Frank

For the most part      comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other      but most of the time they’re friends. We’re the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.|Colin Quinn

I love doing comedy. You don’t get many good comedy scripts. They’re rare. But    I do love playing comedy. Even in drama       I like to try to find the humor because I think it’s very human.|Colm Meaney

Sense of humor is important in life            not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.|Jean Pigozzi

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.|Margaret Cho

I have a very dark sense of humor.|Andy Dick

I used to watch ‘The Waltons’ and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.|Paula Poundstone

I have a very silly sense of humor. I’ve never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.|Paula Poundstone

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom – it doesn’t have the same factory machinery up and running teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations – but that doesn’t explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.|James Wolcott

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for ‘Twilight      ‘ although I got some in there. That was fun! There’s just a tonal difference. For me      storytelling is storytelling. But      I do like writing for grown ups.|Melissa Rosenberg

I think in my case     I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad  Danny Thomas         and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.|Marlo Thomas

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives     without a sense of humor   I don’t know how people make it.|Marlo Thomas

It’s easier to sit there and say you don’t like feminists because they don’t have a sense of humor.|Joan Jett

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.|Dana Carvey

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting   to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.|David Duchovny

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.|Gloria Allred

I don’t understand how somebody wouldn’t have a sense of humor about themselves.|John Malkovich

If you’re that hypersensitive about color and don’t have a sense of humor      don’t marry out of your race.|Laura Schlessinger

My father could be very witty        even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.|Maurice Sendak

If golf wasn’t enjoyable and there wasn’t a lot of humor and enjoyment         even though the game is so frustrating you would wonder why you put yourself through it.|Ray Romano

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing         and it may end up still being about that   but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else    or the humor of it comes from somewhere else  and it gives it that real-life quality.|Kyle Chandler

It’s self-effacing       it’s hard-luck the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.|Jerry Leiber

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It’s a very important way for me to express my positiveness            bringing humor to the world.|Andre Rieu

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.|Brendan Coyle

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.|Courteney Cox

However        frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.|Craig Kilborn

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean   how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously – a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor           which is part of what I try to do too.|Eugene Chadbourne

I like being a Baha’i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties        and making people laugh is one of mine.|Rainn Wilson

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor and it’s what you need when          well    it’s what anyone needs in this world.|Warwick Davis

I get asked     ‘How can you have such failures in your films?’ Well   what else is life about? There’s some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.|Alexander Payne

I try to cope with everything through humor.|Gail Porter

Whether it’s viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books           I’m consistently impressed with their wit      humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the ‘Delete’ option and restraining orders were invented.|Richard Roeper

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor           but I always knew who was funny           who to hang out with.|Andrew Stanton

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you    your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview        even if theirs are different – and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes        yes     of course you should get another round of drinks.|Erin Morgenstern

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.|Bryan Cranston

I appreciate humor so much            but I’m actually not a funny girl.|Emmanuelle Chriqui

I think God gave us senses of humor         and we should use them.|Vera Farmiga

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.|Brendan Coyle

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced          and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age  at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.|Josh Gad

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn’t comedy I don’t know if Obama could have ever become president.|Marlon Wayans

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can’t learn on a set        because it’s all on you. Sometimes you bomb  and you know not to tell that joke again… You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.|Marlon Wayans

I like humor.|David Yates

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off    but I can’t help it.|Michael Showalter

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents      but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.|Roy Blount          Jr.

Think about scary movies: There’s a fine line between horror and humor.|Roy Blount         Jr.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What’s life without a sense of humor?|Mayer Hawthorne

To me sadness and humor aren’t disrelated and humor is the best tool I’ve had against the sadness in my life.|Mike Mills

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.|Jeff Ross

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.|Jeff Ross

I think I’m too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn’t go down well here         which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I’m trying to be funny.|Teddy Thompson

And you know          whether it’s drama or comedy       the best work is based on truth. It’s just that            with comedy the circumstances are just crazy-heightened       and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully        because that’s where the humor comes from. So it’s not that difficult to cross over.|Tony Hale

I’m interested not just in projects that I’ll be starring in  but producing film and TV that’s really quality and great for adults; and when I say ‘great for adults      ‘ it doesn’t mean without humor     because I’m also interested in doing comedy.|Lance Reddick

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.|Ray Stevenson

Our ability to find humor in the world      to make connections between previously unconnected notions           to create new ideas  to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.|Joshua Foer

You probably found ‘How to Survive a Robot Uprising’ in the humor section. Let’s just hope that is where it belongs.|Daniel H. Wilson

I think films about men are often about characters who don’t want to express their feelings. You’re supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that’s a bit dull. Women’s stories often have stronger emotional content     which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.|Nigel Cole

What’s great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us    and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm    our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor            we protect our dignity        we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.|Paul Feig

Women’s humor seems to be a little more supportive. It’s just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I’m going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.|Paul Feig

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you’re not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.|Sloane Crosley

I’m sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor  but I’ve never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.|Ayelet Waldman

I always felt different as a kid        and the Kinks were like      ‘Yeah we’re the Kinks.’ Celebrate your difference; don’t be afraid of your sense of humor          or your personality or who you are. It emboldened me.|Michael Weatherly

Certainly        anyone whom I’ve witnessed         who has gone through something horrible and life-changing        has a sense of ironic humor           or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.|Christopher Heyerdahl

I don’t really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.|David Steinberg

I’m still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family’s experience with it. If I had been able to write ‘The Pura Principle’ back in those days      I’m positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.|Junot Diaz

‘The Sopranos’ is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor         falls   stupid puns   bad jokes – infantile        adolescent stuff       but it makes me laugh.|David Chase

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.|Keegan-Michael Key

There’s such an odd  eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth   New Hampshire. I don’t think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.|Eliza Coupe

‘Big Bang Theory’ is not my kind of show. It’s not my humor. I don’t like multicam comedies. I don’t want an audience to tell me when to laugh.|Zachary Knighton

Sometimes I’ll be sitting with my friends; I’ll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism  humor            mischievousness            my innocence. So I don’t know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work.|Kunal Nayyar

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.|Lorrie Moore

I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy        and sometimes I’ve had laughing fits on-air.|Megyn Kelly

When I started          I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive      not funny      but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person’s sensibility. It’s an almost impossible thing to teach anyone            which leads me to believe that it’s intuitive.|Mark Leyner

I was born in England – though both of my parents are American – and there’s something about the ‘Muppets’ where they have this combination of English and American humor.|Nicholas Stoller

I don’t have hard numbers about this         but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble – it is almost insignificant.|Randall Munroe

So my humor I’d say            comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It’s an interesting mix.|Jasper Fforde

I’m a humor writer    so I don’t always present myself in the best light.|Jen Lancaster

I value humor            kindness       and the ability to tell a good story far more than money           status  or the kind of car someone drives.|Rebecca Wells

Since I became a knitting humor writer    I seem to be understood a little better – at least for the purposes of social discourse.|Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want – a fast-paced story   characters worth caring about  humor            surprises       and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions       and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.|Rick Riordan

When I was young   my favorite picture book was ‘Fletcher and Zenobia     ‘ written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It’s long out of print now      but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children’s book for the times.|Rick Riordan

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise        I can’t give them that.|Stephan Pastis

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It’s darker     more cutting.|Stephan Pastis

Maybe the bar is low            but most of the strips that are 50   60        70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists          the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on ‘Family Guy’ or ‘South Park’ that are edgier. Mine’s not as edgy as those     but it’s edgier than ‘Beetle Bailey.’|Stephan Pastis

Without humor         I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.|Gary Shteyngart

I have a really dark  rich    thick sense of humor.|Inga Muscio

In business    there are times when you disagree            and sometimes it turns out that you’re just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you’re wrong.|Craig Newmark

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say         ‘If they can make you laugh       it’s the sexiest thing on earth.’|Helen Mirren

You know      Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully  and there’s a lot to be said for that.|Viggo Mortensen

I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward     a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor         though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.|Hayley Atwell

So        I’m thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of ‘The Joker’ as a name            and as soon as I thought that         I associate it with the playing card           as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.|Jerry Robinson

I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical        light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky you can have a little more humor. It doesn’t get so dark and deep.|James Dashner

Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things I failed miserably at.|Issa Rae

And     you know      I liked writing humor. Well           I should say  I wanted to write seriously but it kept turning funny.|Roseanne Barr

I’m looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I’m not dark    not compared with ‘Saw’ or anything like that. So I’m looking at live-action horror films  but not slasher ones – ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.|Henry Selick

I’m not too modest of a person. I’ve got a pretty blue sense of humor.|Michelle Monaghan

A sense of humor saves your life   and being able to make friends wherever you go.|Jason O’Mara

My humor is my creativity and my skepticism is a gift.|Josh Tillman

I try to find humor in everything I do        because I think all great plays – even great tragedies – have enormous humor in them.|Marian Seldes

I’m a Larry David fan          right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating     self-critical kind of humor.|Peter Eisenman

Art Modell was a visionary a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.|Steve Tisch

I quite like dark humor.|Marina and the Diamonds

I never write anything without humor       just because I like humor   but at the same time it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.|Joss Whedon

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline sometimes it’s humor            sometimes it’s listening.|Melissa Etheridge

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity   humor            and common sense and kindness.|Maira Kalman

I like Thomas Jefferson      though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don’t know if he had such a sense of humor.|Maira Kalman

I like the brooding man – a brooding man with a sense of humor.|Maira Kalman

I don’t think of myself as funny – I don’t fill up a room with my humor… I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.|Steve Carell

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact        only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.|Emile Durkheim

The great thing about ‘Weeds’ is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it   and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.|Alexander Gould

Be fun! I don’t like homes or rooms that don’t have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are     and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it’s the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.|Bryan Batt

Everybody in my family had a real sick   twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house  we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick horrible stuff. That wasn’t anything new to college.|Seth MacFarlane

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert        and thinking that the music was incredible         but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I’ve gotten a hard time about it  but I love to be funny onstage.|John Lurie

It’s weird doing red carpets; it’s uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.|Kirsten Dunst

In a girl I look for honesty above all         someone who I can carry on a conversation with           someone who has a good sense of humor someone who’s true to herself       and to top it  someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.|Erik von Detten

I think it’s a brilliant tool to have   not only to have a sense of humor but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life           and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.|Delroy Lindo

When you’re in Hollywood you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be          so you can’t think outside the box.|Diedrich Bader

I couldn’t really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings     but I can still get my hands on salt ‘n’ vinegar crisps.|Sam Riley

You either have chemistry or you don’t    but a lot of what attracts me is a guy’s mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone.|Nina Dobrev

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say        ‘That’s so wrong!’ And that’s ‘Family Guy’ to me.|Elena Satine

My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will never be with someone who never laughs or someone who chews disgustingly so if either of those things are detected on a date – it’s a total deal breaker.|Elizabeth Gillies

I like very dry humor. I don’t like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.|Emily Rios

Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that           I think            the sitcom does best.|Megyn Price

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you’re doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that even when you’re doing the most bizarre things sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.|Katharine Isabelle

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor  so I guess I feel like I have done comedy but maybe I’m better known for drama.|Kathy Baker

Okay   sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.|Katie Aselton

Although humor is present in every one of my films      it has always been used as a way to make the darker heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make ‘Humpday’ a comedy.|Lynn Shelton

I need to end up with someone who is strong      intelligent     independent someone I really admire – sensitive        sensuous       warm a sense of humor.|Pam Dawber

I would say just start writing. You’ve got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound     too. I did that with Hemingway     and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me – he didn’t have a sense of humor. I don’t know anything he’s written that’s funny.|Elmore Leonard

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.|Richard Lewis

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example   when I talk about something            it’s how Richard Lewis feels about it. I’m a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.|Richard Lewis

I like art with a sense of humor. I don’t have a huge art education to understand everything. I don’t think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator       though. I don’t think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art  but I like art that doesn’t take itself too seriously.|Kathleen Hanna

I’ve been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor          and they’re loath to do that because they think if it’s a documentary it has to be deadly serious – it has to be like medicine that you’re supposed to take. And I think it’s what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.|Michael Moore

There’s humor in everything. There’s gotta be humor in everything.|Amy Sedaris

I just like playing interesting          complex        complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.|Steve Buscemi

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff so I think that’s probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.|Christine Ebersole

You know      ‘Jake 2.0’ had some funny things in it; I mean     I needed my sense of humor to do that part.|Christopher Gorham

A lot of people say   ‘Hey   God doesn’t have a sense of humor.’ Yes He does. God has a great sense of humor.|Si Robertson

You have to fight for your marriage          do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don’t have a sense of humor I don’t know how anybody makes it.|Kay Robertson

I came into the ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ TV show with a level of confidence that I don’t think I would’ve had if I hadn’t been doing the podcast for three years already. I certainly had to figure out in those three years the sense of humor I wanted to do and the way to talk to celebrities without being incredibly intimidated by them.|Scott Aukerman

Certainly my personality    my sense of humor  my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.|Geddy Lee

When I play a game I want to play           not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity       then you’ve just created another funny game that isn’t very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor    drama and character development.|Doug TenNapel

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.|Zoey Deutch

I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic       but I certainly won’t cancel anything out considering when you love someone you love someone and sometimes you just can’t explain it.|Zoey Deutch

I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That’s why I told America to ‘Read my hips!’ on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on ‘Seinfeld.’|Marlee Matlin

I like men who have goals  something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!|Ana Ivanovic

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.|Twyla Tharp

I talk about race and culture           and that’s what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you         or where you don’t see the humor in our so-called differences then you might not respond to what I’m doing.|Russell Peters

I was pretty much a child of ‘Monty Python.’ I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.|Michael Jai White

It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff           so I decided not to make the ‘Captain Underpants’ books too challenging. Don’t get me wrong – the humor and ideas are often sophisticated – but the books aren’t hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.|Dav Pilkey

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor   nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise       it’s silly.|Mathieu Amalric

I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that       despite their love for it        I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad           Mad   Mad   Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.|Dick Cavett

The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I’ve been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities     and time and circumstances didn’t work out. Timing plays a big part.|Hill Harper

Guys usually like my sense of humor       and I am pretty down to earth. And I’m a driven person.|Kreayshawn

I like people with a good sense of humor like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress.|Helio Castroneves

Believe it or not        there’s a lot of humor in ‘Mad Men.’ Especially in the dark moments.|Matthew Weiner

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep          deep humor.|Ian Frazier

I don’t have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.|Ian Frazier

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener   or the reader get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.|Ian Frazier

With reporting          if you work hard      you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn’t respond to working hard    necessarily. I mean  you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.|Ian Frazier

I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.|J. B. Smoove

After spending 460 days as a hostage       I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think            like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser       I can look back at my earlier life – my history  my mistakes the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world – with some objectivity and even some humor.|Amanda Lindhout

Religious humor is not really my area      so I probably wouldn’t do anything about that    or politics or something.|Chris Lilley

I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies    I did nothing else. When I do pictures            I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can’t afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.|Maureen O’Sullivan

I’ve heard too many times where people say that I’m this ultra-serious guy. In truth I’ve got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd – I love it.|Phil Anselmo

In Buddhism they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh  it’s our way of saying        ‘I’m unattached to that.’ You’re tickled by it        it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.|Jason Mraz

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it’s impossible and always was impossible to define.|Mike Nichols

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D        and F is the funny.|Ron Shock

I’m able to see humor in a lot of things.|Juliana Hatfield

Teasing and a sense of humor        if you can develop that in your kids         and if you can exercise it with the kids just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.|P. J. O’Rourke

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.|P. J. O’Rourke

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her           to capture readers like she does. But I didn’t think about ‘Harry Potter’ when I wrote ‘The Bone Season.’|Samantha Shannon

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor            and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.|Martin Donovan

A good-humored wife who appreciates most      if not all        of my humor – her price is far above rubies as the book of Proverbs doesn’t quite say.|Andrew Hudgins

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.|Emma McLaughlin

I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities – and         most of all    I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform           because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.|George Cukor

I think that it’s hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they’re wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.|Taran Killam

There’s public humor           and there’s private humor   and they’re all appropriate in their own way            and you shouldn’t – just as you wouldn’t have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends – things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.|Robert Mankoff

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on – that was something I had.|Robert Mankoff

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor        you – in logic            something is A or not A. In humor        it’s both A and not A.|Robert Mankoff

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience in which some people will find everything offensive       and some people will find nothing offensive      but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.|Robert Mankoff

One question about a joke is           how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At ‘The New Yorker’           we retain a lot of incongruity        tapping the playful part of the mind – Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment            but observation.|Robert Mankoff

George Carlin is brilliant with words        and Johnny Winters is very creative. It’s taking something common and drawing out the humor         being clever with words.|Bill Cosby

Now    Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway  but they didn’t understand his use of profanity. He didn’t use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.|Bill Cosby

Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me           ‘If you changed color tomorrow    you wouldn’t have any material.’ He meant it as a put-down but I took it as a challenge.|Bill Cosby

Ontologically chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?|David Augsburger

My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you’d otherwise cry.|Honeysuckle Weeks

Funny songs aren’t usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs but it’s kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.|Win Butler

My dad was a very funny man – he’s the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I’m sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.|Joan Cusack

I find any sort of acting that doesn’t have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.|Andrew Scott

If we went by the world’s definition of who I’m supposed to be because I look weird… ‘Well         surely this guy can’t have a productive life         surely he doesn’t have a sense of humor. Surely he can’t love life.’ We stereotype people in this world. And so… if the world thinks you’re not good enough            it’s a lie          you know. Get a second opinion.|Nick Vujicic

I tend to like dry humor.|Dan Scanlon

’24’ is a pretty serious show – there isn’t a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that            I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.|Mary Lynn Rajskub

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke            one bit of humor.|Don Rickles

Among my friends   I’m not a little Boy Scout   and they love my humor     thank God.|Don Rickles

As people      we’re generally optimistic  no matter how disabled our lives are        and we find the humor in the darkest situations.|John Wells

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else’s expense. It was kind of always about power.|John Wells

I’m a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes I use dark humor. I can’t take myself too seriously.|Art Alexakis

I’m a novelist first    and I wrote a bunch of books        and everything I write         I just find people are more interesting when there’s an element of humor to it.|Jonathan Tropper

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman’s ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality       passion          and humor.|Harry Knowles

There’s not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content          but there’s something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor.|Ashleigh Banfield

My wife has a good sense of humor          and instead of calling me psychic with my novels         she simply refers to me as being ‘psycho.’ That’s because multiple things in my books have come true.|Brad Thor

If you look at ‘The Best Man          ‘ there’s a lot of humor in that         but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.|Malcolm D. Lee

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.|Foster Friess

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony        his sense of humor – they are too subtle to seem Spanish.|Antonio Munoz Molina

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up        my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville            Pa.|Jason Kilar

I’m not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity – or that’s the hope          at least – a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it’s actually kicking human frailty while it’s down – I’m not sure.|David Rakoff

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references            dry humor     and retro/organic imagery.|Matt Mullenweg

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like       ‘Um    no. I don’t get it        Dad. Mmm   no            not that one  Dad.’|Kevin Hart

I hang out with the ‘nerdy’ people – they have a different sense of humor than most kids.|Liam Aiken

I’m a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed           vocal in their opinions        and have a sense of humor.|David Lambert

I connect to humor really deeply   so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.|Guillermo Diaz

I like guys who have a plan or a dream. A good sense of humor is also a must. I can be weird with my humor and say things that are random. You need to understand that I’m really goofy and go with it.|Edy Ganem

Yes     I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business     and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.|Jane Krakowski

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig’s from ‘Saturday Night Live’ or ‘Bridesmaids.’ Quirky off the beaten path.|Nicole Ari Parker

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.|John Perry Barlow

Humor helps people open up.|Roger von Oech

The humor and emotion of the ‘Do You Want to Build a Snowman’ theme makes me cry every time I watch it          and that deep emotion is something we’d love to do on the show. If we can make you cry            we always try to. And ‘Once          ‘ when it’s at its best is emotional and fun.|Edward Kitsis

‘Northern Exposure.’ I loved that show; I loved the way it was able to have episodes where somebody finds a woolly mammoth     he calls the museum in New York            they send a guy out and the mammoth’s gone because someone ate it. To me that was everything I ever wanted to do. That show mixed emotion          humor and the surreal all at once.|Edward Kitsis

When I started out    it was around the whole 9/11 – Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor          and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.|Riaad Moosa