Quotes About Jokes

He shook his head, examining the wound again. It's not frostbitten, he muttered. It'll blister, but you should be fine. You might only lose a couple fingers. I glanced at him sharply, but he was smirking. For a moment, I was speechless. Good God, the Ice Prince was making jokes now; the world must be ending.

I felt like a Jane Austen heroine all of a sudden, confusedly looking on at all the people she loves, their myriad unpredictable couplings and uncouplings. There would be no marriages at the end of this Austen novel, though, no happy endings, no endings at all. Just jokes and friendships and romances and delicious declarations of independence.

Robert often displayed a sense of humor. Upon seeing Karl Compton's two-year-old daughter pretending to read a small red book—which just happened to be on the topic of birth control—Robert looked over at the very pregnant Mrs. Compton and quipped, "A little late.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.

Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.

I'm pretty equal opportunity when it comes to issues to joke about.

There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.

I'm not much of a joke writer.

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.

I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was.

They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.