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From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
Adrian Edmondson
Good
People
Seen
Stage
Humour
Absolutely
Roaring
Ages
Really
Toilet
If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.
Aimee Mullins
You
Mind
Focus
Sense
Other
Humour
Broaden
Athlete
Components
Spirit
Similarly
Develop
Attentive
Missing
Also
Trying
Going
Being
Then
Body
Your
Grow
Fast
Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.
Aisling Bea
People
Dark
Sense
Humour
Tend
Sharp
Irish
Irish People
Northern
Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.
Alex D. Linz
Culture
Every
Humour
Favourite
Always
Loves
Who wants to watch a series without humour?
Alexander Dreymon
Humour
Without
Wants
Who
Series
Watch
I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with as much humour and honesty as I can. All my books have been that way.
Alexandra Fuller
Me
Honesty
Pay
Pay Attention
Humour
Books
Way
About
Attention
Look
Talk
Talked
Around
Been
Being
Then
Much
The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.
Alexei Sayle
Humour
Charisma
Magnetism
Fired
Failed
Journalists
Obviously
Newspapers
Capture
Away
Right
Innate
Right Away
Need
I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
Alexei Sayle
World
Random
Sense
Think
Humour
Kind
Cruel
Ideas
Springs
Quite
Really
Therefore
Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.
Allan Guthrie
You
Writing
Negative
Weather
Negative Way
Humour
Our
Way
Those
Definitely
Out
See
Tendency
Towards
Come
Look
Buildings
Affects
Scottish
Maybe
Us
Things
The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.
Amanda Foreman
Natural
Queen
Humour
Complete
Press
Ways
Photograph
Table
Poignancy
No Wonder
Glasgow
Like
Looks
Fake
Wonder
Susan
Sitting
Artist
Different
Across
Different Ways
Palace
Expressive
Resident
Utterly
Portrait
Interpreted
Symbolism
I have a good sense of humour, and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Good
Me
Sense
Humour
Locked
Locked Up
Good Sense
Years
Up
Kept
Robbie minced into my life and he had the same oddball sense of humour as me. It was love at first laugh.
Ayda Field
Life
Love
Me
My Life
First
Sense
Humour
Laugh
Had
He
Oddball
Same
It was humbling to play Mark Ashton. He was a political activist and a humanist, and there is incredible conviction in his vision. But when you're telling a political story, humour is crucial; otherwise, it can be in danger of becoming a bit preachy, and the audience can feel like they've got an agenda coming full steam at them.
Ben Schnetzer
You
Vision
Political
Conviction
Incredible
Mark
Otherwise
Humour
Danger
Bit
Telling
Steam
Crucial
He
Feel
Like
Audience
Becoming
Got
Coming
His
Story
Them
Agenda
Full
Activist
Play
Humanist
Humbling
This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.
Beppe Grillo
Joy
Sense
Humour
Scared
Irony
Establishment
One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
Bill Nighy
Life
Kindness
Great
Too Late
People
Compassion
Long
Important
Reputation
Too
Late
Humour
Spent
Relevant
Status
No Guarantee
Someone
More
Long List
Putting
Stuff
Name
Qualities
Learned
List
After
Far
Regrets
Many
Letters
Guarantee
My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.
Billy Crystal
Great
Me
Strong
Sense
Humour
Impact
Had
Great Sense
Jack
Dad
I thought I had more of a European sense of humour than the average American comic.
Bo Burnham
Thought
Sense
Humour
More
Had
Comic
Than
American
Average
Average American
European
I love inappropriate humour.
Bojana Novakovic
Love
Humour
Inappropriate
I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.
Bojana Novakovic
Love
You
Else
Humour
Laugh
Going
Inappropriate
My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
Brian Dennehy
Life
Good
Father
Sense
Think
Humour
About
Good Sense
Had
Lot
Which
Inherited
Including
Things
'50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Experience
Comedy
Humour
Say
Through
True
Buddy
Because
True Story
Very
Truthful
Story
Lens
Viewing
Based
When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
Catherine Tate
Funny
Myself
Me
Confidence
Personality
Made
Become
Gave
Humour
Would
Would-Be
Ginger
Rather
Facility
Had
Around
Built
Subconsciously
Label
Than
Realised
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.
Charles Stross
Work
Situation
Humour
Background
Response
Tend
Protagonist
Principle
Matching
Foreground
Being
Inappropriate
Much
Cognitive
Rahman sir has a sweet sense of humour. He chuckles a lot and is very friendly.
Chinmayi
Sense
Sweet
Humour
He
Lot
Friendly
Very
Sir
The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.
Chris Morris
Good
Sense
Humour
Randomly
Out
Bestowed
About
Just
Thing
Simon Pegg is terribly talented, very funny, such a delicious sense of humour.
Christopher Plummer
Funny
Sense
Humour
Simon
Delicious
Talented
Terribly
Very
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