Quotes about Humor

“It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.”

“Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.”

“We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.”

“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.”

“Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.”

“A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.”

“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”

“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.”

“I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.”

“I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.”

“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.”

“When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you've just created another funny game that isn't very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development.”

“My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.”

“Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.”

“Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.”

“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”

“The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.”

“I don't have a very quick sense of humor.”

“A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.”

“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.”

“In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.”