Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.
I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.
I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.
I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.
My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.
