The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That's 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

It's how you define yourself. It's not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it's, 'Do you watch 'Portlandia' or 'Amy Schumer'?' It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, 'Do you know the hidden gems?' Like, if you knew the Pixies in the '80s.

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

I've got a great sense of humor.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.