I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I’m smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.
Category: humor
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they’re uncomfortable laughs.
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it’s because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don’t know.
Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore.
There’s a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.
Joe Barbera’s s always complaining that he can’t get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You’ve got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.