If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.
Let’s not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It’s timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
With Ricky Gervais, it’s all shades of wrong, it’s my kind of humor.
My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for ‘Twilight,’ although I got some in there. That was fun! There’s just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.
I don’t think of myself as funny – I don’t fill up a room with my humor… I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
I think that ‘Saving Grace’ is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.
It took me a while to figure out the U.S. sense of humor, a lot of trial and error. I would write down jokes to casually tell my American friend over Skype to see which ones he’d laugh at.
I’ve worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it’s always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.
A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
I have a dark sense of humor.
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
As people, we’re generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.
‘Plum’s are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if you’re hooked into ‘Ranger,’ you’re reading it for the romance.
Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.
Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don’t get it.
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic’s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard.
I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
As a species, we would not have survived without humor.
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
Well, it’s a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader… But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
