Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
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.
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.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.
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.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
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.
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.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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.
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.
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.
Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don’t get it.
But if you don’t watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.
I don’t indulge in double meaning humor.
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
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.
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn’t bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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.
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.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
With my humor, I end up offending everybody!
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.
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.
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.
I don’t understand how somebody wouldn’t have a sense of humor about themselves.
I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.
My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented – he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.
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.!
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.
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
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.
When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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.
I don’t know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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.’
Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don’t tend to take themselves too seriously.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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.
Any good humor is sophomoric. ‘Sophomoric’ is the liberal word for funny.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It doesn’t take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
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.
Rock Hudson wasn’t my type. He’s a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
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.
