Jokes Quotes
-
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
-
It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.
-
When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."
-
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.
-
I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.
-
I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.
-
I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.
-
I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.
-
When everyone jokes about (taking chances), there's a little bit of truth to it, ... Hopefully people have learned from what happened (at Sonoma).
-
My friends joke because I will take my clothes off, at the drop of a hat.
-
She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock.
-
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
-
While 'The Middle' is still funny for adults to watch, there aren't sex jokes. And I'm fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents.
-
A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.
-
If sex isn't a joke, what is it?
-
When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
-
I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.
-
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
-
A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
-
I think a comedian has to be low status on some level; that gives you the right to do all sorts of jokes about all sorts of different kinds of people.
-
I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.
-
I do just want to do jokes. I don't want to be a divisive figure.
-
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
-
What sort of difficulties would happen when people of different cultures try to come together to worship? Tiny little things such as let's tell jokes with each other.
