I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind. – Charles M. Schulz
There may be a correlation between humor and sex. The need for more research is clearly indicated. – Lt. Cmdr. Data , Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Data’s Day’.
My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you’d otherwise cry. – Honeysuckle Weeks
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. – Hayley Atwell
W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer. – Gerald Vizenor
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. – H. L. Mencken
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. – Hunter S. Thompson
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time. – Hattie McDaniel
I call it predicament humor. You don’t do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do. – Glen A. Larson
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. – Grace Slick
I’d like to explore the more abstract side of people’s minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don’t want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I’d want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples. – Harland Williams
Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here. – Harry S Truman
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. – Horace Walpole
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. – Horatio Nelson
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. – Harvey Weinstein
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. – Hank Ketcham
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it’s very ambiguous. You have it, or you don’t. You can’t attain it. – Heinrich Boll
In everything I write, I’m always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. – Greg van Eekhout
Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, ‘If they can make you laugh, it’s the sexiest thing on earth.’ – Helen Mirren
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. – Harvey Pekar
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. – Harry Knowles
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor. – Graham Kerr
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road. – Henry Ward Beecher
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. – James Wolcott
One of my favorite things about ‘Star Trek’ wasn’t just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality. – J. J. Abrams
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn’t: Go stick your head in the mud. – Jesse Ventura
