Carl ReinerThinkers

An Attitude will give one heft.

Comedy tells one how it is, and when you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

Documentary film is a fundamentally rhetorical form that can be reduced to a simple argument.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Humor is honesty. The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

Laughter is the only sure sign that one has arrived at the absolute truth.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Self-deprecation is always a good idea. To invite people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

Sharing is, when shared joy, a double joy, when shared sorrow, half a sorrow.