Abe Burrows Professions : Humorist Born : December 18, 1910 Died : May 17, 1985 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Abe Burrows You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone. Abe Burrows able humor taste Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. Abe Burrows laughter alive way The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing. Abe Burrows feel-better taken people You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. Abe Burrows curves lines ends Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom. Abe Burrows glamour bigs girl It was just an out-of-body experience. Abe Burrows entertainment Similar Authors Art Buchwald humorist Israel Zangwill humorist Don Marquis humorist David Sedaris humorist Corey Ford humorist Emily Levine humorist All Authors
