Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
Humor’s always been the problem of my work, hasn’t it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
I don’t know if my sense of humor goes over Americans’ heads.
My dad’s really funny. The male sense of humor – like my grandfather’s and such – is pretty bizarre. Basically my dad’s side of the family is where the bizarreness comes from. It’s a little goofy and a little out there.
I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.
I’m actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I’ve never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That’s my kind of humor.
I’ve always thought my strengths were I’m smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.
Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is – it just becomes theater.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it ‘arm around the shoulder’ humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It’s mean, mean stuff.
I think it’s critical, a sense of humor. It did help me – it does help me, continuously.
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.
For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they’re friends. We’re the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I’ve written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
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.
My dad was a very funny man – he’s the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I’m sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
I don’t have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble – it is almost insignificant.
I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it’s all a part of the same process as humans as we assimilate reality.
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
