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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

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

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Great humorists are great insulters.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.