Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'
ESPN is all meat and potatoes. It's pretty much scouting reports. There isn't a great deal of humor, and when there is, it's pretty sophomoric.
People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.
If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.
Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.
I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams.
I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.
I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
