Larry Gelbart Quotes

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty.

I feel like I don't really have a sense of humor... I don't know if I could characterize it dark or light. I just - I do like humor.

Obviously I had a different sense of humor when I was 13.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people. Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny. I'm the least funny person in a room full of funny people.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

If you don't think you're funny, no one else will.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

I am much more likely to care about someone trying to be funny and give them some credit for whatever he or she did that was remotely funny than I am to be mused by somebody declaring this isn't funny, that isn't funny, this sucks. If you want to write humor, you're going to have to get used to that.

To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw.

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.