The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh.… — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image
The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people… — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone. — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image