Humor Quotes
“Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.”
“I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.”
-- Amy Schumer
“When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.”
-- Allen Klein
“He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.”
-- Jeremy Northam
“Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.”
-- William Collins
“I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.”
-- Paula Poundstone