I learned that on kids’ shows, you have to eat a lot of stuff. A lot of the humor comes from food and gross-out humor.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
I’ve always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don’t say anything for shock value.
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.
Humor’s a weapon if you want to make it one.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
We don’t appreciate the value of humor sometimes.
Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn’t do anything about that, or politics or something.
As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I’ve published humor in the ‘New York Times’ and ‘Atlantic,’ among other places.
I feel like I’ve always had a sordid sense of humor, and it’s only gotten more twisted as I’ve gotten older.
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don’t take ourselves too seriously in fashion.
I have a very silly sense of humor. I’ve never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It’s a very strange place to be in, and I don’t take that role too seriously.
Maybe there’s a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
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.
