3 December 2020 Teddy Thompson 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.
3 December 2020 William James Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
3 December 2020 Karen Russell I think that different pleasures work for different readers – a friend of mine won’t read anything that’s not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I’m a sucker for humor and strangeness.
3 December 2020 David Sedaris 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.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard 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.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken 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.
3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
3 December 2020 Colm Meaney 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.
3 December 2020 Romain Gary Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.
3 December 2020 Lisa Loeb 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.
3 December 2020 Andre Rieu 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dick Van Dyke 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.
3 December 2020 Flip Wilson Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.
3 December 2020 Adam Clymer 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.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle 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.
3 December 2020 Dane Cook My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
3 December 2020 Wavy Gravy Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore.
3 December 2020 Francois Truffaut When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it’s just wonderful.
3 December 2020 Stephen Collins 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.
