Quotes About Jokes

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

There are no secrets. Everything gets mined for comedy.

There is a rhythm to a good joke, a certain pacing.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

I'd buy joke books and try doing them at school; I always had jokes. That would be my go-to thing at parties: I'd be able to get through them if I just told enough jokes. Otherwise, I wouldn't end up talking to anybody.

Q: Why did the cranberries turn so red? A: They saw the salad dressing! Q: What was the Pilgrim's favorite music? A: Plymouth rock! Q: What's the best way to eat turkey on Thanksgiving? A: Gobble it. Q: What key do you use the most on Thanksgiving? A: A tur-key! Q: What did the turkey say when the Pilgrim grabbed him by the tail feathers? A: That's the end of me! Q: What did the turkey say just before it was popped into the oven? A: I'm really stuffed.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

Eddie Sadowski of Baltimore is always good for a couple of laughs a game.

I like being funny; I like laughing with people.

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.

Even Alf is not humorous at times.

If you wanted reflections on the nature of the universe and your place in it, you should have stayed in school. You want fart noises and cock jokes, I'm your man.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

The thing is that Chuck Schumer, for all his power and influence, is a pretty pathetic figure. You go around New York State, and people make jokes about him and talk about how he shows up at the New York State Fair and has a staffer carrying a big sign saying 'Come meet Chuck Schumer.'

I always had dreams that I could be on television. I used to watch 'The Late Show' with my dad, and I'd make him pause the VHS whenever the audience laughed to explain jokes to me. But it's hard to just 'get into TV.'

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

Being a musician means I am 'hanging out' a lot, like driving on tour or being at a show or whatever, so maybe there's more time to interact with peers and develop jokes.