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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin (in My Autobiography (1964))
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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette (Chance Acquaintances, 1952)
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