Mort Sahl Quotes

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.