You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it. less than 1 minute read
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I’m just gonna tell her, ‘Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they’ll have to hire you, they can’t really fire you, and you don’t have to produce that much. It’ll be awesome.’ less than 1 minute read
Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he’s been in so long that it just doesn’t matter, and he’s not running for president. But it’s just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you’re just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. less than 1 minute read
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? less than 1 minute read
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn’t have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn’t explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. less than 1 minute read
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. less than 1 minute read
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give ‘em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don’t like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot’s mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain. less than 1 minute read
I’m enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it. less than 1 minute read
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. less than 1 minute read
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. less than 1 minute read
