"Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time." ― Suzanne Fields Topic(s): Humor More From Suzanne Fields "The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against." "The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture." "That’s what Major League Baseball’s steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young." More In Humor "I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic."― Shelley Berman "I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously – a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too."― Eugene Chadbourne "Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life."― Molly Shannon