“Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.” DoeImaginationSeriousCreaturesSpringHumorousFairsBasesMalesWitRationalFancyPoeticExaggerationAbnormal Author:Oscar Wilde
“Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.” AtheismSeriousJokesHumorousPositive Atheism Author:Clarence Darrow
“I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.” IfsThinkingSidesFocusSeriousPersonalityElementsHumorousWho I AmNeglectDiverseSpectrum Author:Macklemore
“I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.” IfsTryingKindDifferentSongSeriousSingingHumorousRidiculousDifferent Kinds Author:Pete Seeger
“In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.” FunSeriousBuddhismHumorous Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's been part of my signature to incorporate my humor with my dance, or even just how I'm feeling. If I'm feeling humorous, which I am, most of the day, I tend to incorporate that. If I'm dancing freestyle, if I feel like I've gotten too serious, while I'm moving, I'll think, "All right, it's time to lighten up a little bit," and I do. It just feels good.” IfsThinkingFeelsLittlesFeelingsMovingBitsSeriousLittle BitHumorousDancingFeel GoodSignaturesFreestyle Author:Stephen Boss
“One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.” ThinkingBookPresidentSeriousGloryHumorousShadowShameMonumentPresident Nixon Author:David Small
“You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the biggest range I can within the story, going from humorous to serious without it being jarring. That's the hardest part, to keep that balance. It requires being constantly aware of where you are in the story. You can't really do that in a movie: You can't slightly modulate the tone by the way the character's eyeballs look in one certain scene.” TryingSeriousBalanceSceneHumorous Author:Daniel Clowes