With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
“Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)”
I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.