Quotes About Joke

Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

A husband is living proof that a wife can take a joke.

A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

A joke is a very serious thing

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

If a condescending joke is truly funny, make yourself the subject- you will increase the number of people laughing by at least one.

So you wanna hear a joke, its not funny so you wont laugh, so there are three tomatoes walking down the street mamma tomato pappa tomato and baby tomato, so baby tomato starts lagging behind and pappa tomato gets mad and goes back and squashes baby tomato and says ketchup.

Why didn't the skeleton go to the dance? Because he had no body to go with.

As a joke, I would love to stand in line at ATM machines, and when people put in their PIN, I yell Got it! and then run away.

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

We lifted the shower curtain by the corners and carefully poured the ash into a garbage bag. "What would happen if we added water?" Carmen joked. "Would we get instant vampire?

Sometimes you're about as funny as a busted condom.

In the next picture, Reagan is saying, "Haley, have I ever told you the one about the two Episcopal preachers?" "No, sir, Mr. President." "One of the preachers said to the other, 'Times have really changed, haven't they? I never had sex with my wife before we were married, did you?' "And the other Episcopal priest said, 'I don't know, what is your wife's maiden name?

The first part, the setup, sets the stage. The second half, the punch line, provides an unexpected ending. It's the surprising conclusion that causes laughter.

Humor comes out of the unexpected: If there's no surprise, there's no laugh. In a triple, as discussed in chapter seven, the first two lines are often straight lines; this is the realistic element. The third line is the surprise twist—logically related to the first two lines, but unexpected and exaggerated. Realism is the setup, while exaggeration is the joke. "Get your facts first," wrote Mark Twain, "and then you can distort them as much as you please.

A joke is a curve ball—a pitch that bends at the last instant and fools the batter. "You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that," Burrows said. To achieve the unexpected twist, it's sometimes necessary to sacrifice grammar and even logic.

Baptists are only funny underwater.

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

I don't know, maybe I'm immature, but I still find it funny if I dump cold water on my girlfriend when she's in the shower.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.