Quotes About Humorist

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.

I never asked to be compared to Richard Pryor. I just realised he was one of the greatest humorists we'd ever had on earth, I knew I wanted to be like that.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

The humorist thrives on deformity; the artist deforms the world to recreate it in his own image.

The humorist has solved his problem by joining two incompatible matrices together in a paradoxical synthesis. His audience, on the other hand, has its expectations shattered and its reason affronted by the impact of the second matrix on the first; instead of fusion there is collision; and in the mental disarray which ensues, emotion, deserted by reason, is flushed out in laughter.

A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist.

Have I been an entertainer, a provocateur and a humorist? Absolutely.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

I'm not going to be the one who screams and yells at people, but the one who makes things hysterical.

The sublime humorist is the most miserable, most pitiable creature in creation.

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.