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Quotes About Joke

The biggest difference between the two is how intimate the theatre is. Film is so different because, when youre on set, even if a joke lands, no one is going to laugh, because nobody wants to mess up a take.
~ Renee Rapp
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.
~ Corey Taylor
I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.
~ Eric Garcetti
How, Yusef wondered, can two men joke like that and tomorrow be enemies. Perhaps they'd been enemies yesterday. He decided public servants weren't human.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Not that the crew of the Toiletship itself were above a practical joke now and then.
~ Thomas Pynchon
When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
~ Kellan Lutz
Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.
~ Kelly Braffet
How do you make a blonde laugh on a Sunday? Tell her a joke on a Wednesday.
~ Ken Dodd
The screen blazed with the light of recognition. The eyes met yes the Is met the answer sparkled so it was you all the time and it was a seen joke a laugh a tickling tumble a gendered engendering of a second self a you-and-me-baby from AI-and-I to I-and-I. There was a flowering, and a seeding: a reflection helpless to stop itself reflecting again and again in multiple mirrors. The stars threw down their spears. Someone smiled. His work to see. The connection broke.
~ Ken MacLeod
Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.
~ CaddyShack
The sensation when her nasal passages cleared was almost like an orgasm. Patrik liked to joke that if she ever had to choose between Sinex and sex, he would have to get himself a mistress.
~ Camilla Lackberg
Strider's bedroom "The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not true, he thought then. The portrait was a weapon, too. Of seduction. In it Strider was utterly naked and whisking through the cloads like an avenging angel. He was holding a teddy bear in one hand and a stream of pink ribbons in the other. Anya had given him the nearly life-size monstrasity as a joke. But the joke was on her. He loved the thing.
~ Gena Showalter
a joke: "A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders zero beers. Orders 999,999,999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders negative one beer. Orders a 'sfdeljknesv.
~ Gene Kim
Was there an outage I didn't respond to quickly enough? As an IT Operations guy, the career-ending outage is the joke my peers and I tell one another daily.
~ Gene Kim
Arnold's 'joke' was too obscenely good not to be taken as a portent: it was the visible part of some huge invisible horror.
~ Iris Murdoch
she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.
~ Isabel Allende
Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.
~ Harry Anderson
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
~ Phyllis Diller
I'm straight and always have been. When our family gets together, we joke about it or throw our hands up in desperation because there is very little we can do. If we make a big fuss about correcting these rumors, it just creates more attention and turns the whole thing into a soap opera.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
I think the way British wrestling lost its way in the mid '80s was that the athleticism and the sporting side to the drama kind of went away and it almost became a joke of a TV show.
~ Wade Barrett
Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.
~ Lisa Lampanelli
I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke but I don't want to get audited by the IRS.
~ Jay Leno
I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Or the octogenarian twins—Creason and his colleagues referred to them as Heckle and Jeckle—who came to the library daily, spending their time reading Herodotus and Thucydides and telling Creason the very same joke every day for seven years.
~ Susan Orlean