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Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents... but he continually had physical accidents... he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.