A Quote by Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Aristotle
Greek - Philosopher
384 BC - 322 BC

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

George Carlin

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Garrison Keillor

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

Kara Walker

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Mark Twain

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.

Langston Hughes

I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

Bill Plympton

I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.

Dave Attell

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

Keegan-Michael Key

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Lorrie Moore

Surprise is the secret of joy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

Bill Watterson

Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.

Garrison Keillor

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Chevy Chase

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.

Bette Midler

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