3 December 2020 Loretta Swit 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.
3 December 2020 Peter De Vries The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
3 December 2020 Roy Blount, Jr. Think about scary movies: There’s a fine line between horror and humor.
3 December 2020 Jessamyn West 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.
3 December 2020 David Lynch 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.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
3 December 2020 Bob Newhart 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.
3 December 2020 Agnes Repplier Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
3 December 2020 Allen Klein Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
3 December 2020 Michelle Williams 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.
3 December 2020 Cecily von Ziegesar 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.
3 December 2020 William Collins 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Forsyth 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.
3 December 2020 Janet Evanovich 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.
3 December 2020 James Thurber 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.
3 December 2020 Greg Kinnear 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.
3 December 2020 David Seabury Good humor isn’t a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
3 December 2020 Robert Orben 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.
3 December 2020 Max Eastman It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
3 December 2020 Michael Showalter 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.
3 December 2020 Suzanne Vega 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.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Shapiro Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
3 December 2020 Lionel Trilling Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
