Cartoonist Quote by Robert Mankoff

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its…

— Mark Twain

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are…

— Christopher Morley

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

— Andre Breton

I think it's vital to be honest with yourself. You do have to satisfy yourself first. If you're drawing something, you have to ask…

— Gary Larson

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to…

— Betty White

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

— Umberto Eco

Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill…

— Betty White

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

— Max Eastman

Funny comes in different levels. Like not looking seasoned, or not looking prepared, the way that an actual comic should look, becomes funny.

— Deon Cole

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

— Stephen Leacock

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

— Scott Avett

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

— E. B. White