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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson
You
Humor
Half
Become
Sick
Humorous
Missing
Well
Get
Get Well
Fun
Cards
All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
George Bernard Shaw
Work
Humorous
Genuinely
Intellectual
The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces.
Judith Miller
Great
Jewelry
Humorous
Everyone
Extravagant
About
Something
Costume
Outrageous
Great Thing
Pieces
Very
Thing
I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.
Jeff Kinney
Family
People
Writing
Phone
Think
Humorous
Our
Kid
Kids
Brother
Write
Had
Blast
Remembering
Come
Most
Talking
Because
Were
Diary
Up
Childhoods
Stories
Happened
Interesting
Younger
Younger Brother
Growing
Growing Up
Things
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
Jennifer Granholm
Love
Signs
Free
First
Humorous
Some
Entirely
Factual
First Amendment
Ideas
Protected
Protest
Passionate
Amendment
Them
Incorrect
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome
Sad
Life
Me
Joy
Sadness
Will
Enjoy
Side
Humorous
See
Seems
More
Look
Always
Than
Where
Fun
Things
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
Michael Eric Dyson
Day
Change
Comedy
Cause
End Of The Day
Enough
Humorous
Ways
Ourselves
Status
Status Quo
Observe
Force
Make
Discomfort
End
Quo
Us
I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again - I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.
Al Jolson
Funny
People
Laughter
Seen
Others
Funny Stuff
Humorous
Laugh
Would
Could
Had
Stuff
Comedians
Make
Audience
Howl
Heard
Anything
Again
Then
Really
Who
Whose
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
Ann Beattie
Me
People
Writing
Think
Pleasant
Humorous
Would
About
Write
Writer
Most
Subjects
Going
Just
Story
While
Aspects
Agree
Even
Serious
Keeps
Things
Necessarily
When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made a small documentary, they first thought of having a voiceover for me. The producer liked my English so much, he said they were retaining my original voice.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Me
Speak
Thought
Made
First
Humorous
Way
Impact
Having
Small
Voice
Voiceover
Retaining
He
Liked
Documentary
Said
Were
Subject
Bigger
Informal
Much
Producer
English
Original
Serious
With 'Badhaai Ho,' the lines are so quirky and the situation is so humorous, awkward, and bizarre that people are taking away a lot from the film. The dialogues are amazing. We aren't trying to make people laugh, but the situation is like that, that people are laughing.
Ayushmann Khurrana
People
Amazing
Situation
Humorous
Laugh
Laughing
Bizarre
Taking
Like
Make
Lines
Lot
Trying
Quirky
Film
Away
Awkward
When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.
Beck
You
People
Feelings
Sentiment
Radical
Too
Humorous
Immediately
Out
Recoil
Would
Embraced
Kinds
Small
Laying
Could
Throwing
Had
Songs
Feel
Provocative
Personal
Anything
Clubs
Room
Really
Certain
Your
Things
Start
Started
Playing
You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
Brendan Coyle
Work
Funny
Relationship
You
Humorous
Find
Something
Casual
Observer
Between
Audience
Engage
Actor
The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket.
Christopher Moore
Funny
Me
You
Matters
Humorous
Say
Bent
Easily
Would
Entertaining
Bored
About
Something
Only
Supernatural
Tend
Throw
Generally
Fitting
Close
Get
Same
Going
The Only Thing
Stories
Them
Novels
Thing
Basket
I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.
Dasha Zhukova
Art
Humorous
Drawn
Am
Ironic
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
David Riesman
Big
Rich
Humorous
Inscrutable
Only
Mysterious
Concealment
Matches
America
Legendary
Chinese
Capacity
Interests
I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.
Drew Barrymore
Life
Love
Journey
My Life
Humorous
Imperfect
Been
Very
Exposed
There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.
Elif Batuman
Patience
Few
Humorous
Bit
Least
Very
Few Things
Any
Little
Little Bit
Things
You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor, on the other hand, is broad, soothing, positive, inclusive, and smutty - to make sure everybody gets it. Pretending to be humorous is easy, and a great many people are doing it.
Florence King
Positive
Great
You
People
Impossible
Humor
Pretending
Cynical
Inclusive
Other
Everybody
Humorous
Broad
Pretend
Easy
Soothing
Wit
Make
Dry
Sure
Because
Fake
Witty
Doing
Hand
Gets
Subtle
Many
Elitist
'Everwood' I think provides a unique feeling, an emotional experience. And other shows on TV don't have the acting talent to do that. Each one of our actors can do a serious scene and a humorous scene, and can do it all within the same sequence. They can go from a heartbreaking moment to a humorous moment.
Greg Berlanti
Experience
Feeling
Think
Other
Humorous
Our
TV
Scene
Emotional
Talent
Within
Go
Provides
Heartbreaking
Same
Acting
Sequence
Moment
Unique
Shows
Each
Serious
Actor
Each One
People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
James McBride
Family
People
Pain
Humorous
Pretty
About
Were
Process
Differently
Things
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
James Taylor
People
Try
Will
Humorous
Entertainer
Find
Come
Always
Up
Done
Interesting
Compelling
Things
I thought I was going to be known for my humor. But then I had an idea for a story, which was absolutely not humorous. But, of course, that's the one that sells and becomes big.
Jay Asher
Humor
Thought
Big
Humorous
Absolutely
Absolutely Not
Had
Idea
Known
Course
Becomes
Sells
Going
Story
Which
Then
I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
Jesse Eisenberg
Funny
You
Will
Guess
Humorous
Silly
Something
More
Context
Explicitly
Then
Really
Require
Serious
Play
Necessarily
It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
Jimmy Swaggart
God
You
Lie
Humorous
Statement
Anything
Mean
Ridiculous
That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.
Joanna Lumley
You
Money
Matter
Humorous
Ghastly
About
Look
Always
Got
Taste
Staggering
Thing
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