When I did stand-up at U.C.B., and I had a blog for a couple of years that started my writing career, 'Totally Confident and Completely Insecure,' it was the same kind of self-deprecating humor and stories about being out in L.A. and being treated like a loser at a hair salon because you are not famous.
When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
I try to cope with everything through humor.
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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.
Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.
Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.
I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.
Humor is reason gone mad.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.
Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.
Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.
There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.