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I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
That's humour - doing what funny people have done since comedy began without being edgy and pushing boundaries.
The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.
But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
The Irish crowd and the humour, they really get it. Them riffing with 'The Room' makes the film watchable for me.
I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.
I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour.
She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.
I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.
Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.
I've always loved absurdism and plays of that genre. I think that my humour is very much rooted in theatre and drama.
Australian people are dope. They're so fun. They want to just have a good time, and they have a great sense of humour.
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
I want to live in Britain with a sense of humour - where there are no groups whose life choices are 'above' criticism.
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.
Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
Top Gear' is all about the cars. We've got humour in it but the unique premise of the show is it all starts with the car.
I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.
I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
I am a grown man who is an entertainer with a specific type of humour and if you don't like it, that's okay, I owe you nothing.
I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
Stand-up comics tend to make two assumptions: that Christians have no sense of humour and that all their audiences are unbelievers.
I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.
I've just watched the whole series of 'Flight of the Conchords'. I absolutely love it - the humour, the actors, everything about it.
Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.