The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.
My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious.
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.
Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
It's a funny old world.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
