America Quote by Malcolm X

Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects…

— E. B. White

The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real…

— Bill Mauldin

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

— Dan Crenshaw

Yeah, it constantly feels like you're constantly checking if you're funny enough, because I think this country's naturally funny. I think the sort of…

— Lucy Beaumont

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

— Lewis Mumford

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed.…

— Constance Rourke

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it…

— Desi Arnaz

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

— Gad Elmaleh

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

— Art Buchwald

“But Americans have also exercised an additional option for decades: make fun of something. The Constitution does not guarantee Americans the right to satirize…

— Michael Kantor

The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights…

— Bob Newhart