Dave Barry Quotes

Humor was a good way to hide the pain.

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

My experience is to deal with things through humor.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.