Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
I realized women and humor were linked very closely.
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
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.
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.
I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'
I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.
I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
I've got a great sense of humor.
As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to a news item or situation.