3 December 2020 Frank Muir Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
3 December 2020 Robert Benchley There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
3 December 2020 David Zucker 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Weatherly 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.
3 December 2020 John Ratzenberger Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they’re uncomfortable laughs.
3 December 2020 John Hodgman My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I’m talking about or not.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
3 December 2020 Walter Isaacson 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.
3 December 2020 Ivan Reitman 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.
3 December 2020 Jason Alexander 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.
3 December 2020 James Thurber 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.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
3 December 2020 Hattie McDaniel Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
3 December 2020 Marion Ross But if you don’t watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
3 December 2020 Carl Hiaasen 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.
3 December 2020 John Kricfalusi 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.
3 December 2020 Tom DeLonge 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.
3 December 2020 Allen Klein Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Orben 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.
3 December 2020 Russell Baker Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
3 December 2020 Brendan Coyle 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.
3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
3 December 2020 Horatio Nelson I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
