In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.
If I can’t see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
I’m a great admirer of Primo Levi’s work. It’s always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.
We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
My dad is just like everybody else’s dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I’ve never seen anyone work as hard as he does.
My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They’ve been able to keep my sense of humor.
I’m lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.
I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He’s got such a wicked sense of humor.
It’s weird doing red carpets; it’s uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.
‘Blithe Spirit’ is played almost all over Britain somewhere at all times because it is such a unique and ridiculously funny show. But it’s also, in fact, under those layers of humor, a very serious show. It’s quite misogynistic.
Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom.
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
It’s self-effacing, it’s hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
I used to watch ‘The Waltons’ and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
I’ve met a lot of people who’ve lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
I still haven’t found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
I can’t live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America’s and juicier than Britain’s. I think it’s a cross between the two of them, really.
I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn’t: Go stick your head in the mud.
I was born with a mother who loved me unconditionally and with a sense of humor.
