Quotes About Jokes

los mejores chistes son lo que solo pueden escucharse a solas.

se dijo, los mejores chistes son lo que solo pueden escucharse a solas.

Ever notice how really smart people enjoy making silly jokes?

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

Así tu viuda sabrá por fin dónde duermes, era capaz de decir, y otras bromas semejantes, que maldita la gracia tenían. Pero

Punning and groaning are brothers.

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.

I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!

My grandmother was very funny. It skipped a generation.

I do not use computer much, but I am slowly becoming aware of the popularity of Bob Biswas and the jokes on the Internet. I feel like Alice in Wonderland, it's a dream which might end someday.

I loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.

Impressions are still kind of hard for me and not what I love to do the most, but with characters, I think there's an element of fearlessness. You try to figure out the best reading and wording of the jokes before the show, and then you just really have to go hard.

It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.

I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world.

Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it.'

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

All forms of comedy are terrifying.

You know why Polish jokes are so short?...So the Germans can remember them.

I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.