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| One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. |
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| Perhaps I know best why it is a man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty |
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| Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh |
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| To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood |
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| The greatest enemy of authority is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter |
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| The witticism, which is a transgressive reversal of discourse, does not act on the bases of another code as such; it works through the instantaneous deconstruction of the dominant discursive code. It volatizes the category of the code, and that of the message |
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| Jean Baudrillard - Comedy requires context |
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| I unsettle all things nothing to me is sacred, nothing profane |
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| The tragedy of Virginia Tech has taught us all a valuable lesson. We now know what you can do with an English major. |
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| Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity... |
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