Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
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.
When I started the ‘Hellboy’ series way back when, I wasn’t really thinking consciously about the humor, but Hellboy does have my personality, and that’s an important part of my personality.
People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you’re not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.
I think I have always had a little humor.
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we’re ‘dead earnest,’ humor is the only thing that is dead.
Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.
I’m really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
‘Wait, Wait’ has been great. The humor is there, and we get to do a lot of action.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for the newspaper, it would be a humor column. If I acted, I wanted to do comedy.
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don’t really think of myself as ‘writing humor.’ I’m simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.
Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They’re all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
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.
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.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
I hang out with the ‘nerdy’ people – they have a different sense of humor than most kids.
Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, ‘If they can make you laugh, it’s the sexiest thing on earth.’
I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is ‘Harold and Maude.’
If golf wasn’t enjoyable and there wasn’t a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.
I’ve got a great sense of humor.
