I don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes is a comedy, comedies can be longer or shorter, so can dramas.
For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
We do not take humor seriously enough.
I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women have told me over the years that it is very, very important to them.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.
There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.
Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.
Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.
I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.
That's the easiest job you can have in TV comedy, being the guy who just delivers the funny.
Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.
I have never bought into this view that some people have that the job of the comedian is to espouse opinions and change the world - I think the job of a comedian is to be funny.
I think a sense of humor vital to get through life: It's a great link between people and can be very effective in a getting a point across.
