“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”
Will Rogers
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you”
“You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one”
“If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.”
George Burns
“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”
Peter De Vries
“There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.”
Cullen Hightower
“one of the greatest humorists of the last half-century.”
Shelley Berman
