Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
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.
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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.
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
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.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.