Critical Quote by John Cleese

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

— Stephen Fry

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

— Conrad Hyers

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

— Simon R. Green

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages…

— Patricia Piccinini

“Humor today goes hand in hand with our rationality, and not just rationality in the sense of cognitive sophistication, but also in the sense…

— John Morreall

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

— Debra Granik

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

— Stephen Leacock

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no…

— Martin Amis

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

— Brian Celio

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

— Peter Ustinov

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

— Roisin Murphy

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

— Anonymous