(14 quotes found)
“You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one”
Will Rogers
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you”
“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”
“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”
Peter De Vries
“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
“I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.”
Dick Gregory
“It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden”
Mark Twain
“There are many different kinds of comedians ... the observational humorist, the impressionist, the character creator, the physical comedian, the self-deprecator, the dirty-joke teller. What made Richard so brilliant is he was able to incorporate all these styles at once.”
Damon Wayans
“[And not a moment too soon, figures Colbert (the gifted humorist-performer, that is not the make-believe blowhard who shares the same name).] My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned, but an idiot, ... So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.'”
Stephen Colbert
“one of the greatest humorists of the last half-century.”
Shelley Berman
