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.
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.
Nobody enjoys the ‘little show about nothing’ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
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.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
I’ve met a lot of people who’ve lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I’m talking about or not.
I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don’t think I’m capable of that.
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.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it’s contemporary wit, you know what I’m saying?
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.
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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.
I’m able to see humor in a lot of things.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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.
Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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.
Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
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.
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
There’s humor in everything. There’s gotta be humor in everything.
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.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.
I’m not for gratuitous nudity, but if there’s humor, I don’t have a problem.
My humor was Victorian – and still is.
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.
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.
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
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.
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
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.
If you’re that hypersensitive about color and don’t have a sense of humor, don’t marry out of your race.
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.
Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we’ve done on the show, like it.
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.
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.
Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.
If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you’ll probably get the humor in the audio part.
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.
Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
‘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.
I think that ‘Saving Grace’ is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.
One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.
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.
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.
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.
OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn’t be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.
I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
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.
It’s weird doing red carpets; it’s uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.
There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.
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.
