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One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
Robert Mankoff
Try
Mind
Humor
Joke
Situation
Resolved
Monty
About
Retain
Observation
Part
Vehicle
Stuff
New
Ideas
Also
Well
How
Editorial
Question
Lot
Tapping
Comment
Yorker
New Yorker
Communicating
Use
Strangeness
Incongruity
Playful
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.
Robert Orben
Remember
Humor
Take
Remember When
Stuff
Arm
Call
Gentle
Around
Prisoners
Go
Mean
Shoulder
Used
Now
'Trek' is probably more cerebral and philosophical. 'Stargate' does seat-of-the-pants adventure and humor better.
Robert Picardo
Better
Humor
Trek
Philosophical
More
Adventure
Does
Cerebral
Stargate
'Star Trek' tends to take itself a little too seriously. They were either very dramatic shows, or if we did a humorous show, it was always a little like, 'Oh, we're doing humor on 'Star Trek,'' especially on the original series.
Robert Picardo
Seriously
Humor
Too
Trek
Dramatic
Humorous
Tends
Take
Like
Always
Doing
Were
Itself
Very
Did
Oh
Either
Little
Show
Original
Series
Shows
Star
Star Trek
If you can appeal to another person's sense of humor, you can introduce ideas, thoughts, things that they may disagree with or not believe in. At least they'll listen.
Rocky Carroll
Thoughts
You
Sense Of Humor
Disagree
Humor
Sense
Believe
Introduce
Ideas
Another
Least
Person
Listen
May
Appeal
Things
Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.
Roger Moore
Good
Relationship
Sense Of Humor
People
World
Humor
Sense
Live
On And Off
Ourselves
Find
More
More Or Less
Had
Share
Between
Parts
Been
Years
Off
Very
Did
Same
Screen
Different
In-Between
Place
Different Parts
Different People
Less
Now
Two
Tony
Humor helps people open up.
Roger von Oech
People
Humor
Open
Up
Helps
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
Man
Dignity
Humor
Superiority
Him
Affirmation
Declaration
A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
Ron White
People
Humor
Guess
Laugh
Find
Something
Lot
Being a caregiver requires infinite patience, physical and emotional strength, health care navigation skills, and a sense of humor - which can be hard to come by after sleepless nights and demanding days.
Rosalynn Carter
Health
Strength
Patience
Sense Of Humor
Care
Humor
Demanding
Sense
Nights
Sleepless
Sleepless Nights
Physical
Emotional
Days
Come
Health Care
Infinite
Being
After
Which
Skills
Requires
Hard
Navigation
There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.
Rose McIver
You
People
Humor
Darkest
Think
Laugh
High
Passed
Very
Situations
Human
Where
Loved
Stake
Help
Who
Moments
Away
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.
Roxane Gay
Rights
Women
World
Humor
Men
Feminism
Enjoy
Too
Able
Some
Given
Through
Lazy
Idea
Freely
Audacious
Least
Feminists
Impression
Targets
Same
Often
Move
Autonomy
Inalienable
Bodily
Should
Notion
Thing
Amusing
Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.
Roy Clark
Me
Blessing
Comedy
Humor
Looking
Else
Side
Seeing
Someone
Something
Write
Lighter
Spontaneous
Always
Skit
Earliest
I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.
Russell Peters
You
Culture
Fans
Humor
Differences
Our
Respond
See
About
Never
Environment
Talk
Doing
Issue
Were
Up
Where
So-Called
Grew
Race
Might
Then
If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.
Salma Hayek
You
Sense Of Humor
Yourself
Try
Dance
Humor
Mirror
Feeling
Sense
Danced
Lock
Laugh
Sexy
Silliest
Recover
Make
Ugliest
Blue
Front
Room
Stand
Your
Fun
Ever
Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'
Samantha Shannon
Love
Sense Of Humor
World
Humor
Sense
Think
Bone
Harry
Harry Potter
Intricate
All Writers
About
Potter
Writers
Like
Wrote
She
Readers
Around
Does
Built
Storyteller
Aspire
Capture
Season
Luminous
Her
Rowling
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Samuel Richardson
People
Humor
Married
Married People
Said
Hear
Quick
Either
Should
Ill
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson
Women
Humor
All Women
Hopes
Good-Natured
Attractions
Sixteen
Appear
Twenty
Kept
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People
Genius
Humor
Degree
Some
Always
I feel like I don't really have a sense of humor... I don't know if I could characterize it dark or light. I just - I do like humor.
Sandra Oh
Sense Of Humor
Dark
Light
Humor
Sense
Characterize
Could
Feel
Like
Know
Just
If I Could
Really
I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.
Sarah Chalke
Love
Risks
Smart
Humor
Think
Laugh
Laugh Track
Tell
Plus
About
Gives
Takes
Terms
Track
Because
Audience
Different
Them
Really
Show
Credit
Needing
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.
Sarah Silverman
People
Too Much
Humor
Some People
Too
Say
People Say
Some
Facts
Stereotypes
Much
I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.
Scott Thompson
Humor
Think
Broad
Than
Canadian
American
Little
Less
Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.
Seth MacFarlane
Family
Jokes
Sense Of Humor
Humor
College
Sense
Sick
Everybody
Else
Our
Dream
Would
Horrible
Never
Had
Stuff
New
Most
House
Make
Making
Real
Just
Anything
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Even
Twisted
With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.
Shawnee Smith
Character
Humor
Any
Juxtaposition
Play
Gravitate
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
Shelley Berman
Writing
Humor
Master
Dramatic
Am
Literary
Teaching
Professional
Program
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