Believe Quote by Jean Webster

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

— Matt Groening

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

— James Gray

There's clearly humor that goes too far and humor that is violative, and we are engaged in our humor in a complex call-and-response with…

— Andrew Hudgins

That's what I'm attracted to: how people face struggle - with humor - and how they handle tough situations in their lives and in…

— Mike O'Malley

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

— Jon Lovett

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

— Neil Simon

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in…

— Danny Boyle

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

— Al Franken

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

— Robert Benchley

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the…

— Francois Truffaut

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

— Conrad Hyers