Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early ‘70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Rock Hudson wasn’t my type. He’s a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
The script was just the best I’d read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn’t expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.
There’s a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.
I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I’m here for.
I love Sell Out, I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor, great songs, irony.
I don’t have a very quick sense of humor.
A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it’s in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
Roosevelt’s humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
But if you don’t watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
It’s very hard to write humor.
I think it’s because it’s so different and it takes risks. Plus, it’s really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There’s no laugh track.
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
I’ll do humor about myself, I’ll poke fun and everything, but that’s me and I can do it to me. I think it’s cruel to do it to somebody else.
At NBC I wasn’t really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
