If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.
There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.
