Quotes About Humorists

Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Perhaps we could do without tragedy in art - but what about comedy? Is it a coincidence that so many of the best American humorists have been Jewish and African-American?

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

As Smith later wrote, much of the suffering that lay ahead for the Pilgrims could easily have been avoided if they had seen fit to pay for his services or, at the very least, consult his map. "[S]uch humorists [i.e., fanatics] will never believe…," he wrote, "till they be beaten with their own rod.

To call such persons humorists, a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature.

Humorists are precisely the kinds of guys who can cut through the orgy of petty indignation that the aging baby boomers are imposing on this great country.

All great humorists are sad.... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest--the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Since comedy encourages the audience to suspend disbelief, humorists can take advantage of every opportunity to stretch the truth. In other circumstances, unmitigated exaggeration would be viewed as lying. In humor, clever exaggeration is rewarded with laughter.