Quotes About Humor

The language-based portion of the brain (the left frontal cortex) "gets" the joke by recognizing the ambiguity, incongruity, and surprise of the humor. The emotional areas of the brain (such as the amygdala) appreciate the humor and trigger laughter.

Once you can consistently make people laugh, it's essential to target your material so you don't waste precious time preparing the wrong material for the wrong performer, to be delivered to the wrong audience, for the wrong purpose. This is true for all forms of humor writing.

The material must be appropriate to the interests of the audience (or readers), and each must relate to the persona of the performer (or writer). Throughout the book, we'll show you how to create and follow the MAPP to successful humor writing.

The sense of hopelessness that comes from our apparent inability to control the environment is now a universal hostility. Industrial chemicals can lead to pollution, drugs can lead to suicide, and the advertising drum beats for nonsensical fads. Humor may be our only rational way of coping with the fear of terrorism, an invasion of spooks from outer space, or the chemical mutation of our planet.

My dad used to say the best place to look for sympathy was somewhere between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

An old man who's happy not to have cowshit on his neck.

It's very hard to write humor.

You are so full of salami." "It's

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Suppose your were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. The moment it arises, all your irritations and resentments slip away, and the sunny spirit takes their place.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

I have had a "call" to literature, of a low order—i.e. humorous. It is nothing to be proud of, but it is my strongest suit… seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of God's creatures.