Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. — George Burns Copy Share Image
Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain.… — Gilbert King Copy Share Image
I'm a humorist. A guy like Paul Simon just makes my life so much simpler. When I was there, he had a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The key, I would say to any fledgling humorist starting out, is to make sure that sloppiness is part of your recipe.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm… — George Burns Copy Share Image
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working. — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
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