Humorists Quotes - Page 6

• A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

  Don Herold

  Humor, Feel Good, Feels

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• Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Tired, Recovery

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.184, 1st World Publishing

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• By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Humor, Water, Firsts

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• If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

  Peter De Vries

  Hate, Humor, Feels

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• ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Italian, Play

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.240, 谷月社

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• When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

  Mark Twain

  Jobs, Men, Venture

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6747, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a humorist. A guy like Paul Simon just makes my life so much simpler. When I was there, he had a hearing against hate. Steven Spielberg came and testified against hate. Paul Simon said hate was bad. Orrin Hatch was there, and he was against hate too. Everyone was opposed to hate. Is this really a wonderful way to spend our tax dollars, to have these men drone away about how against hate they are?

  Dave Barry

  Hate, Men, Guy

  "'All I Think Is That It's Stupid': An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• The key, I would say to any fledgling humorist starting out, is to make sure that sloppiness is part of your recipe. That way they come to expect fumbling and clumsiness and they say, "Oh, it must be a charming part of his personality."

  Nick Offerman

  Keys, Personality, Sloppiness

  "Interview: Nick Offerman on his ‘Simpsons’ voice and TV life after ‘Parks and Recreation’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 3, 2014.

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  When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

  Johnny Carson

  Views, Way, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.

  Bruce McCall

  Funny, School, Humor

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• I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

  David Sedaris

  Events, Made, Bigs

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. May 27, 2008.

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• Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in the Philippines during the Marcos overthrow, and I was up on what was called Smokey Mountain. I think it's gone now, but it was a garbage dump with a bunch of people living on it. I was talking to Bob on the phone, and I told him, "I'm a humorist. I can't write about this." And Bob told me to let my style be dictated by the subject, to take what I saw and write about it in the tone that it requires.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Writing, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

  David Sedaris

  Heart, Thinking, Long

  "David Sedaris diaries are mundane, profane, downright odd". The Associated Press Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 2, 2017.

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• I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

  Demetri Martin

  Comedian, Use, Strange

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

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• Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Native American, Humor, Leaving

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

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• This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Failing, Reason

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• But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Perfect, Catholic

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• I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

  Dick Gregory

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Answers, Way, Humour

  "PJ O'Rourke - the rightwinger it's OK for lefties to like". Interview with Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I've always been leery of comical artists because I think oftentimes they're hiding the fact that they're not that talented. For example, with Martin Kippenberger, I always thought he was a kind of poor man's Sigmar Polke - also a humorist - but Kippenberger used humor to get away with things he couldn't master.

  Diego Cortez

  Thinking, Artist, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wings, Political, Als

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny Things, Reporters, Reports

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Political, Excellent, Dave

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

  Nick Offerman

  Writing, Men, Laughing

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Opposites, Office

  Source: www.avclub.com

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