Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He's just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don't see anything twisted about it. It's sort of ridiculous and wacky. It's sort of fun.
There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
