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Humor Quotes
Because laughing helps.
Many of these quotes treat being genuinely funny as essential rather than optional, something prized within families above almost any other trait, closely related to the funny collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that you can see on the page, and no matter who's saying it, it is, in and of itself, a funny line.
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Macro humor is just a person being themselves in a situation, saying whatever they're going to say, and it's funny because of the situation and who they are, or they say something, and it's just so them.
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I try to write from a place of writing what I know, and what I know is interesting and appropriate women with edgy senses of humor. They're not soft people, so why are all the movies about women soft? My friends are all blazing their own paths. Some are married with kids, but a lot of them aren't. Some of them don't want that life.
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I love Nicole Holofcener's films for their constant duality of humor and emotion and their focus on very real, if flawed, dynamics between funny people.
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'Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.
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Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
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You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
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If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.
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We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.
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Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.
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I always pushed back on doing long-form. I imagined SpongeBob as being simple, and I wanted to concentrate on character humor.
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SpongeBob is a complete innocent - not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is. They're whipping themselves up into situations - that's always where the humor comes from.
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