Russell Baker Quotes

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

If you're able to put humor into something, just like it happens in life, you might get away with it.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

Funny is when you're serious.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

I think there should be comedy in everything; it doesn't matter what you're doing.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.

I don't want to take myself too seriously, thinking that I'm always having to be this cathartic, intense and deep person, because I certainly enjoy silliness.