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In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren't really one or another.
Rebecca Hall
Time
Humor
Vice Versa
Drama
Guess
Unless
Projects
High
Some
Tend
Towards
Between
Another
Tightrope
Versa
Tragedy
Same
Human
Same Time
Vice
Anything
Which
Really
Tread
Gravitate
Things
Two
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
Rebecca Wells
Kindness
Good
Money
Car
Humor
Value
Tell
Kind
Status
Ability
Someone
More
Good Story
Drives
Than
Story
Far
Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.
Regina Hall
Myself
Sense Of Humor
Sometimes
Humor
Sense
Laugh
Make
Because
Appreciate
I like Strahan a lot. I've known him for years. He was a Giant here - in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He's very funny. He's got a great sense of humor.
Regis Philbin
Funny
Great
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Big
Sense
Ways
Giant
Giants
Following
Had
He
Great Sense
New
Like
Him
Known
Got
Years
Lot
Very
York
New York
Many
Here
I was always silly in high school. I used to always get in trouble because I was laughing. I've always thought I was funny but never thought I could use it to make money. In 1996, I decided I was going to use my humor to get on TV to make money.
Retta
Funny
Money
School
Humor
Thought
Trouble
Laughing
TV
High
High School
Silly
Could
Never
Make
Because
Always
Get
Going
Decided
Use
Used
All the people I looked up to - Roseanne, Tim Allen, and Jerry Seinfeld - were stand-up comedians who used humor to get TV shows. I'm on TV now, and I'm working towards getting my own show.
Retta
People
Humor
Own
TV
TV Shows
My Own
Allen
Seinfeld
Towards
Comedians
Looked
Tim
Were
Up
Get
Getting
Working
Used
Show
Who
Shows
Now
Jerry
When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.
Riaad Moosa
Time
Humor
Wind
Stage
Extremely
Relevant
Out
About
Obviously
Sort
Talking
Because
Around
Lot
Hitting
Just
Influenced
Informed
Whole
Second
Started
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
Ric Ocasek
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Think
Road
Developing
Bands
Sanity
Internal
Keep
Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day.
Rich Eisen
Work
Time
Good
Day
Humor
Late-Night
Any
We moved to America when I was young, but we were always very Welsh in our home. The humor, food, traditions. Very Welsh.
Richard Brake
Food
Home
Humor
Young
Our
Always
Welsh
Were
Traditions
Very
America
Moved
If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.
Richard Hyung-ki Joo
Music
Time
You
Humor
Back
Look
Were
Mixing
Beethoven
Mozart
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.
Richard LaGravenese
Me
You
Man
Woman
Sense Of Humor
Light
Humor
Prison
Before
Sense
Every
Innocence
Project
Says
Out
Pennsylvania
Runs
He
She
Greatest
Bed
Doing
Been
Years
Get
Trying
Goes
Who
Her
Thinks
Every Night
Night
Sleep
I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
Richard Lederer
Humor
Think
Incredible
Puns
Double
I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
Richard Lewis
People
Humor
Tell
Seeing
Never
Observational
Because
Were
Wanted
My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.
Richard Lewis
Humor
Free
Example
Channeling
Everything
About
Something
Through
Feels
For Example
Talk
How
Brain
Lot
Storyteller
Richard
Lewis
Association
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.
Richard Roeper
Humor
Other
Books
Consistently
Insight
About
Restraining
Percent
Delete
Invented
Columns
Wit
Readers
Audience
Were
Impressed
Five
Option
Goes
Orders
Whether
Viewers
Show
Why
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
Richard Russo
Myself
Writing
World
Humor
Hilarious
Think
Risk
Observe
Simply
Frequently
Reporting
Which
Disingenuous
Really
Appearing
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.
Rick Riordan
Good
You
Book
Worth
Humor
Same Thing
Think
Caring
Kids
Out
Characters
Find
About
Mystery
Adult
Makes
Always
Answers
Surprises
Questions
Same
Want
Story
Turning
Asking
Asking Questions
Pages
Good Book
Keep
Keeps
Fast-Paced
Thing
Humor is to get us over terrible things.
Ricky Gervais
Humor
Over
Terrible
Get
Us
Things
Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.
Ridley Scott
Sometimes
Humor
Drama
Find
Wearing
Divided
Split
Terms
Brain
There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.
Rita Rudner
Personality
Better
Humor
Different Kinds
Introspective
Kinds
Some
Fit
Different
Sarcastic
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
Robert Klein
Funny
People
Comedy
Humor
Priesthood
Funny People
Jews
Alive
Immigrant
Still
Psychiatry
Us
Jewish
There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.
Robert Mankoff
You
Humor
Own
Group
Appropriate
Way
Say
Would
Share
Perfectly
Within
Around
Context
Private
Friends
Close
Just
Public
Social
Certain
Social Group
Your
Certain Things
Whom
Right
Things
Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.
Robert Mankoff
Humor
Field
Something
Had
Understood
Levels
Early
Playing
Playing Field
The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.
Robert Mankoff
You
Humor
Logic
About
Something
Both
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Thing
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.
Robert Mankoff
Truth
Truth Is
People
Humor
Will
Some People
Nothing
Everything
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Find
Some
Bad Taste
Between
Most
Audience
Line
Offensive
Taste
Which
Your
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