Essence Quote by Dave Barry

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

— Dick Gregory

Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Don Herold

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all.…

— Margaret Halsey

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's…

— Garrison Keillor

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

— George Burns

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem…

— Rollo May

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not…

— Langston Hughes

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't…

— Heinrich Böll

“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost entirely devoid…

— Gene Weingarten

“Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I had a client who just wanted to entertain me the whole time, that is a defense against going deep, in my mind. What…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall