Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

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.

Humor is a silent and polite dynamite which enables you to blow your own way of life sky-high every time you have had enough of it, yet with the maximum discretion and without making a mess.

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

CALVIN:
Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?

When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny.

Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?

HOBBES:
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at the things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Comedy is a very powerful component in life. It has the most to say about the human condition because if you laugh you can get by. You can struggle when things are bad if you have a s sense of humor. Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long good bye. Its a defense against unhappiness and depression.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.