Both conservatives and liberals watch Parks and Recreation, and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. SNL was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you are talking about.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people do not realize there is a lot of craft behind the comedy.

It is hard to force creativity and humor.

In the Hurt Locker there is a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I do not think humor is forced upon my universe it is a part of it.

The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

I am sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I have never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

Women is humor seems to be a little more supportive. It is just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I am going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we are dead earnest, humor is the only thing that is dead.

I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? There is some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.