Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
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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.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.
There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
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