What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.
Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?
My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
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.
The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.
Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.
What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.
Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.
I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.
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.
My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
I like an English sense of humor: dry, dirty, a little bit off. That's kind of my taste.
Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.
Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
There's always a source for humor.