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“Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.”
As quoted in TIME magazine (21 July 1961)
Context: The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”
The Big Picture: An American Commentary (1991)
“I find both humor and grimness in most issues.”
[NewsBank, E1, That science guy is back, in 'Eyes of Nye', Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, April 5, 2005, Tom Paulson]
Source: Year unknown, published in 2004, How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004), Ch. 1 : It All Started with a Boy, p. 16
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
"A Note on Humor", from The Book of Negro Humor https://books.google.com/books?id=60FkAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Humor+is+laughing+at+what+you+haven%27t+got+when+you+ought+to+have+it.%22, p. vii (1966)
“Jim giggled when he laughed. His sense of humor could be sly and wicked.”
About, "Jim Henson's Muppets legacy lives on 25 years after his death" by Bill Prady