Comedy Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Self-deprecating humour is a common form of comedy and it helps get the audience on side because you're being vulnerable.

— Alex Brooker

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

— Judd Apatow

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental…

— Romain Gary

People love self-deprecating humor.

— Sarah Cooper

Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life.…

— Constance Rourke

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political.…

— David Zucker

“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

Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.

— Joel Goodman

Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor…

— Ogden Nash

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

— James Gray

“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