About Quote by Robert Mankoff

“Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment—of what's really going on—affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. It…

— Marshall McLuhan

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

— Elaine Stritch

“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

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Most experts today subscribe to some variations of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor arises when people discover there's an inconsistency between what…

— Joel Warner

“Preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble…

— Ted Cunningham

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a…

— Ron Dentinger

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay…

— Carrie Brownstein

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

“A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and furtive way…

— Martin Amis

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

— Ted Danson

When you spend your day writing comedy, particularly with others, the discussion of jokes and how far to push things with a group of…

— Romesh Ranganathan