Humorists Quote by William Zinsser

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

— Jeff Dunham

It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.

— Michael Grant

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking,…

— James Gleick

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

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's…

— Garrison Keillor

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

— Louis C. K

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

— David Sedaris

It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.

— Lily Tomlin

Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the…

— Emo Philips

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to…

— Alan Coren

“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

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us…

— Michael Eric Dyson