Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
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.
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.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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 is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.