“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”

“Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.”

“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.”

“There's always a source for humor.”

“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”

“If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.”

“I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.”

“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.”

“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”