Quotes About Joke

They're so weird and so beautiful, she said. Like you, I said. I meant it as a joke, but Liz nodded. She felt that she was sort of like an emu herself, she said. Maybe that was why she'd had flying dreams ever since she was a little girl -- at heart, she was an emu. She was sure the emus also dreamed of flying. It was another thing they had in common. Both she and the emus wanted to fly -- they just didn't have the wings they wanted.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.

There are quite detailed rules with sitcom. When people can leave scenes, act structure, joke rhythm. You can't not have a straight man.

I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.

It's a bit of a joke among my friends that, although I'm very busy, active and constantly rushing around all over the place, I've always struggled to fit any 'real' exercise into my life.

The sassy black woman who can land a good joke was sort of my go-to audition. Or playing a struggling mother.

I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around, and I'm like a hyperactive child.

It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

Okay," agreed Bernie. "Now what I wouldn't give for a holocaust cloak." "A what?" "Never mind. It's an inside joke, an old inside joke.

Clowns taste funny.

I can make a stab at comforting!" Tsunami joked. "Let me try … um … hey, it's only two dragons, right? Ah, they won't be able to do anything. Deathbringer will totally stop them if they go anywhere near her. I mean, that is his entire purpose in life, as far as I can tell. And if they kill him, Glory will take them down with her magical death spit. So don't worry, pat pat pat.

Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation of sex was necessarily ludicrous. Defecation and copulation were two activities which made a human being totally ridiculous. At least the former could be conducted in private, but the latter by definition demanded a partner. I discovered, though, that whenever I ventured this opinion, people took it as a joke.

I hear that several journalists were very angry after I joked in my column that if Bush said the world was flat, the headline on the news analysis would read 'Shape of Earth: Views Differ' --- each of the journalists thought I was making fun of him.

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree with that at all.

a greyish substance that might be blood. Remembering the spray I caught earlier, I wipe a hand across my face and it comes away wet and sticky with the same grey liquid. "I'd kill for a shower," I mutter, chuckling darkly at the sick joke. Juni cuts a long, jagged line through the creature's flesh

He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very.

What was that joke about a guy being so thin he had to stand in the same place twice to throw a shadow?

Florida has become The Joke State, the state everybody makes fun of. If states were characters on Seinfeld, Florida would be Kramer: Every time it appears, the audience automatically laughs, knowing it's going to do some idiot thing.

You'd probably start laughing because you'd realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.

Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it implicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke and getting the joke, respectively).

La Broma Infinita / D. F. Wallace