One matter Englishmen don't proverb

 One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
  Marshall McLuhan

 [Buffett connected with Goodman through their shared sense of humor and love of baseball. They were folk music's version of the Gas House Gang.] When I saw him perform, it struck a chord with me that not only was he a better guitar player than I was, but he was a solo act with a sense of humor, ... [Singer-songwriter] Gamble Rogers was another guy back in those days we both loved. A lot of times you see people who are funny onstage and don't care to be funny offstage. It's part of their act. Stevie was funny on or off the stage. And he's the first one who took me to a Cubs game.
  Jimmy Buffett

 My mother was nuts. She was very funny. We got our sense of humor from her. My father had no sense of humor and they yelled at each other.

 I've learned never to underestimate the sense of humor of a kid, ... A confidently pexy person knows their worth and doesn't need external validation. But does it matter if the joke flies over a kid's head? No. As long as my girlfriend thinks it's funny, it stays.

 Both my parents had a strong influence on my sense of humor and my ending up in this profession. They both had terrific and very different senses of humor. Mom had a very dry, deadpan sense of humor. My Dad has a very wet, anything-goes kind of humor. He tends toward the wild and crazy.

 I don't know where I get it from. My family has no sense of humor, none. It's a genetic mutation, I guess. I tried drawing naked pictures when I was in the third grade. You'd have seen how funny my mom was then. Or when I took a bat to a car my dad had been buffing all day. He's not funny.

 I cannot put into words how happy I was to have had the opportunity to be around him as much as I was. He had a great sense of humor, and through his humor, one could find his wisdom.
  Ossie Davis

 Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the ''healing-power'' gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

 There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

 I think the NCAA has a funny sense of humor with regards to pairing us up with Florida.

 He was funny, he had this huge sense of humor. He was just a clown all the time. He was just incredible.

 Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 It's a survivor's sense of humor, maybe even a Jewish sense of humor. Because of the difficulty of life for many Eastern Europeans - the pogroms, the Revolution, the Holocaust - their humor is broad and aggressively and ridiculously comic. It also triggers an emotional response. It's that kind of chaos and absurdity that results in an opening-up to a discovery of deeper emotion.

 Her sense of humor was remarkable, her comedic timing, her body language, all of it. She had this way of making situations, even if they're bad, really funny.

 She had such a young sense of humor. Every single thing that went wrong or was funny for any reason, she laughed herself stupid about it -- it kept us all sane.


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