The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.
Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.