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She had a great sense of humor, and a fair amount of humanity – and so she was not worrying about how comfortable she was or how well she was treated. She was really looking at the people. – Stephanie Wilds	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Both of us talk to our moms on a daily basis, we have a really similar sense of humor around a lot of things too – quite daft. – Jemma Warner-Gregory	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Humor is really difficult to break through. – Steve Wolf	Found on CNN 1 year ago
From the very start of the campaign, Remi has been unflinchingly loyal and extraordinarily capable, her insights, good humor, and work ethic have been an incredible asset to all of us, and I am grateful for her service and friendship. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Clearly my social team has a sense of humor that I don’t share at the moment. – Denny Hamlin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
For so long, you [ White viwers ] probably thought that Indians never had a sense of humor, we never thought you were too funny either. – Charlie Hill	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As unfortunate and unsettling as the incident was, Chappelle went on with the show, jamie Foxx and Chris Rock helped calm the crowd with humor before Chappelle introduced the last and featured musical guests for the evening. – Carla Sims	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One of the ways these speeches have functioned historically is that you can talk about things without talking about them. Humor gives you the ability to shift the burden to the audience to come up with the joke. – Don Waisanen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I actually think the most interesting thing about what's going to happen here is that this speech is going to be a real test case for what is comedy in the US in 2022, it used to serve as: Let's find some humanity here, let's find the lighthearted. In 2022, things are so partisan and so tribal, is there anything beyond the most pointed partisan humor? – Don Waisanen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Paul Herman lived around the corner from me the last few years and I am glad we got to spend some time together before Paul Herman left us. I'll miss Paul Herman, a loving soul with a great sense of humor. – Michael Imperioli	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Like everyone else, I’m hugely impressed by how far he’s come as an actor, this was a rap artist from Philly who's now a mammoth star. But he’s always had a tremendous amount of personal magneticsm. Somebody once said on set that he had an Elvis vibe. I’ve never met Elvis, but he certainly has this very attractive quality. He’s a guy you want to spend time with and hear what he has to say. And when you’re a superstar, there’s an impulse to share everything with us. That’s very risky. But it also demonstrates personal freedom that, I think, we all aspire to. But even then, he demonstrated pure talent, humor, skill and inventiveness. He’s pretty irresistible. – Jim Meskimen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I got really lucky because I married somebody who is smart and handsome, and he’s very confident and he has a great sense of humor, and, fortunately, he’s not only been supportive, which is a lovely word. He’s been with me, really with me hands-on and right there. He’s really been a rock, and I got lucky because how could I know all that going in? I was 22. – Susan Lucci	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I can't thank you enough for your dedication to the safety of the station, the safety of your crew, your humor, your friendship and your dedication to the flight control teams around the world. – Tom Marshburn	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, ‘What train am I on?’ OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael. I thought, ‘OK, I’ll go along with this.’ I said, ‘Yes, Francis, good.’ You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping? They say, ‘Yes! Of course! Yes!’ But he wasn’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part, the Godfather. – Al Pacino	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Everyone in the room knew that she and Bob were finally together again, watching the festivities from box seats high above them all. The evening ended with a raucous audience singalong led by Bob's wife, Kelly Saget, and his daughters Aubrey and Lara. The ode, in homage to Bob's salty sense of humor, was ‘My Dog Licked My Balls,’ it's just an amazing special of music. Everybody gets up and sings ‘A Dog Licked My Balls,’. – Matt Polk	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, what train am I on ? OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael Corleone. I thought, OK, I ’ll go along with this. I said, yes, Francis, good. You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping ? They say, ‘ Yes ! Of course ! Yes ! ’ But he was n’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part. – Al Pacino	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He was incredibly brave and never lost his kindness or his sense of humor, even when the going was rough. – Max McDonald	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’d forgotten how whimsical and crazy his host bits were — very physical and very visual, in one show he walks on stage in front of the audience and says ‘Did I tell you it’s my birthday?’ And the audience all raises their hands with wrapped gifts for him. It’s that kind of gentle crazy humor that I want younger generations to see from him. – Di Bona	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He loved school and he was so happy today to be back in school after the long weekend and school COVID closure, his smile was contagious and lit up a room. His sense of humor was infectious, and the staff member said that staff are inconsolable at this time because they loved him so much. – Interim Superintendent Wayne Walters	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's literally like riding a bike. It's like riding a bike – it kind of just comes back because it is a very specific dialogue we have, and a sort of sense of humor that we have together sometimes inside, sometimes very outside. And it's always good when it falls inside, full attack. Full attack, we go on sometimes. She comes after the poor Sandman. – Jennifer Aniston	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble. – Betty White	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Oh God, she was so bawdy ! She was such a naughty girl, she had such a raunchy sense of humor. – Vicki Lawrence	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
After a few years we decided to post them on the internet to share a little holiday joy with others, and the reaction has been overwhelming, ithink it'simportant to keep a healthy sense of humor – especially during a pandemic – and if the cards brighten somebody'sday even for a moment then it's totally worth it. Especially fellow parents, we allfeel a little overwhelmed at times, nobody has it all together. – Jessica Stanley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think I have two souls, one is playful, ironic, with a sense of humor. The other is in contact with the dramatic face of life and human problems around the world. The two natures live in me and never abandon me. My films might reflect this personality unconsciously. – Lina Wertmüller	Found on CNN 2 years ago

She had a great sense of humor, and a fair amount of humanity – and so she was not worrying about how comfortable she was or how well she was treated. She was really looking at the people.

– Stephanie Wilds

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Both of us talk to our moms on a daily basis, we have a really similar sense of humor around a lot of things too – quite daft.

– Jemma Warner-Gregory

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Humor is really difficult to break through.

– Steve Wolf

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From the very start of the campaign, Remi has been unflinchingly loyal and extraordinarily capable, her insights, good humor, and work ethic have been an incredible asset to all of us, and I am grateful for her service and friendship.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Clearly my social team has a sense of humor that I don’t share at the moment.

– Denny Hamlin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For so long, you [ White viwers ] probably thought that Indians never had a sense of humor, we never thought you were too funny either.

– Charlie Hill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As unfortunate and unsettling as the incident was, Chappelle went on with the show, jamie Foxx and Chris Rock helped calm the crowd with humor before Chappelle introduced the last and featured musical guests for the evening.

– Carla Sims

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the ways these speeches have functioned historically is that you can talk about things without talking about them. Humor gives you the ability to shift the burden to the audience to come up with the joke.

– Don Waisanen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I actually think the most interesting thing about what's going to happen here is that this speech is going to be a real test case for what is comedy in the US in 2022, it used to serve as: Let's find some humanity here, let's find the lighthearted. In 2022, things are so partisan and so tribal, is there anything beyond the most pointed partisan humor?

– Don Waisanen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Paul Herman lived around the corner from me the last few years and I am glad we got to spend some time together before Paul Herman left us. I'll miss Paul Herman, a loving soul with a great sense of humor.

– Michael Imperioli

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Like everyone else, I’m hugely impressed by how far he’s come as an actor, this was a rap artist from Philly who's now a mammoth star. But he’s always had a tremendous amount of personal magneticsm. Somebody once said on set that he had an Elvis vibe. I’ve never met Elvis, but he certainly has this very attractive quality. He’s a guy you want to spend time with and hear what he has to say. And when you’re a superstar, there’s an impulse to share everything with us. That’s very risky. But it also demonstrates personal freedom that, I think, we all aspire to. But even then, he demonstrated pure talent, humor, skill and inventiveness. He’s pretty irresistible.

– Jim Meskimen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I got really lucky because I married somebody who is smart and handsome, and he’s very confident and he has a great sense of humor, and, fortunately, he’s not only been supportive, which is a lovely word. He’s been with me, really with me hands-on and right there. He’s really been a rock, and I got lucky because how could I know all that going in? I was 22.

– Susan Lucci

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I can't thank you enough for your dedication to the safety of the station, the safety of your crew, your humor, your friendship and your dedication to the flight control teams around the world.

– Tom Marshburn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, ‘What train am I on?’ OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael. I thought, ‘OK, I’ll go along with this.’ I said, ‘Yes, Francis, good.’ You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping? They say, ‘Yes! Of course! Yes!’ But he wasn’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part, the Godfather.

– Al Pacino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everyone in the room knew that she and Bob were finally together again, watching the festivities from box seats high above them all. The evening ended with a raucous audience singalong led by Bob's wife, Kelly Saget, and his daughters Aubrey and Lara. The ode, in homage to Bob's salty sense of humor, was ‘My Dog Licked My Balls,’ it's just an amazing special of music. Everybody gets up and sings ‘A Dog Licked My Balls,’.

– Matt Polk

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, what train am I on ? OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael Corleone. I thought, OK, I ’ll go along with this. I said, yes, Francis, good. You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping ? They say, ‘ Yes ! Of course ! Yes ! ’ But he was n’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part.

– Al Pacino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He was incredibly brave and never lost his kindness or his sense of humor, even when the going was rough.

– Max McDonald

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’d forgotten how whimsical and crazy his host bits were — very physical and very visual, in one show he walks on stage in front of the audience and says ‘Did I tell you it’s my birthday?’ And the audience all raises their hands with wrapped gifts for him. It’s that kind of gentle crazy humor that I want younger generations to see from him.

– Di Bona

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He loved school and he was so happy today to be back in school after the long weekend and school COVID closure, his smile was contagious and lit up a room. His sense of humor was infectious, and the staff member said that staff are inconsolable at this time because they loved him so much.

– Interim Superintendent Wayne Walters

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's literally like riding a bike. It's like riding a bike – it kind of just comes back because it is a very specific dialogue we have, and a sort of sense of humor that we have together sometimes inside, sometimes very outside. And it's always good when it falls inside, full attack. Full attack, we go on sometimes. She comes after the poor Sandman.

– Jennifer Aniston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

– Betty White

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Oh God, she was so bawdy ! She was such a naughty girl, she had such a raunchy sense of humor.

– Vicki Lawrence

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After a few years we decided to post them on the internet to share a little holiday joy with others, and the reaction has been overwhelming, ithink it'simportant to keep a healthy sense of humor – especially during a pandemic – and if the cards brighten somebody'sday even for a moment then it's totally worth it. Especially fellow parents, we allfeel a little overwhelmed at times, nobody has it all together.

– Jessica Stanley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think I have two souls, one is playful, ironic, with a sense of humor. The other is in contact with the dramatic face of life and human problems around the world. The two natures live in me and never abandon me. My films might reflect this personality unconsciously.

– Lina Wertmüller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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