Quotes about Humor

“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.”

“Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.”

“Humor is to get us over terrible things.”

“My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles - only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain, and violence.”

“Humor is an antidote to all ills.”

“And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.”

“Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.”

“I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.”

“I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.”

“So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.”

“The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.”

“I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.”

“The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.”

“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”

“Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.”

“Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”

“I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.”

“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.”

“Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.”

“There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.”

“My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.”