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Quotes About Humor

Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.
~ Andrew Scott
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
My mom is well read in English and Bengali, and my dad is a humorist, science writer and a futurist.
~ Konkona Sen Sharma
Great humorists are great insulters.
~ Dick Cavett
For years, humorous characters in cartoons have been almost exclusively male.
~ Paul Dini
When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
~ John Prine
Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.
~ George Thorogood
I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.
~ Whit Stillman
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
~ James Taylor
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
~ Piers Anthony
I thought I was going to be known for my humor. But then I had an idea for a story, which was absolutely not humorous. But, of course, that's the one that sells and becomes big.
~ Jay Asher
I love to play humorous moments in dramatic shows. That's always the most fun: to keep the logic of the character in a show that's basically action-adventure and then play the comedy moments.
~ Robert Picardo
I love humorous games. I love to laugh, and I think it's a really great way to attract players.
~ Kim Swift
People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
~ James McBride
It's difficult to differentiate between a story that's humorous and clever and one that actually makes people laugh out loud.
~ Mick Foley
I consider myself a bit of a comedian. I write a lot of humorous songs.
~ Brad Paisley
I can't help but see things in life through a humorous lens, so anything that comes my way is gonna probably be, you know, bent in that direction.
~ Tig Notaro
When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and we all laugh. That's generally how, just mechanically - super-distilled - comedy works.
~ Zoe Quinn
We want to be just like the greatest band. But I think we're just sort of both naturally humorous fellas.
~ Kyle Gass
There's only so many ways you can cope with being in dire means, and one way is humour.
~ Mura Masa
Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.
~ Alex D. Linz
The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.
~ Chris Morris
I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.
~ William Fichtner