I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sens... -Edward Albee

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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Edward Albee , Dramatist
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Edward Albee was an American playwright known for his groundbreaking works, including "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "The Zoo Story." He was a leading figure in the theater of the absurd and the postmodern drama, exploring themes of identity, relationships, and societal norms in his plays. Albee received numerous awards and accolades for his contributions to the world of theater.

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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor....
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel....
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innoce...
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be ...
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the o...

Humor Quotes to Explore

I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, esp...
The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them....
Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music....
From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily...
We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who eschew the serious ambiance of con...
The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor....
Humor helps people open up....
I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair....
As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant....
My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path....