“Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.”– Steve Allen Related Quotes “With Portlandia, I don’t think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We’re okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.”– Carrie Brownstein “I am often the brunt of my own humor.”– Charles R. Swindoll “Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”– J. G. Ballard