Quotes About Jokes

Most young comedians would be lying to say that they weren't huge Weird Al fans when they were kids. Weird Al is probably the first person I ever realized had a career that was just making jokes.

When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'

I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.

I think I was a behavior problem, mostly, but in a fun way. I tried to tell jokes. I was the middle kid, so I was always looking for attention and trying to be the one that equalized everything.

All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

There's a million jokes about what's going on with Batman and Robin. It's a classic thing to call out the homoerotic nature of the men's adventure show.

My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

My job as the host of a rock awards show is not to be as divisive as possible, but certainly you want to be able to interject your jokes and how you feel about stuff.

My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.

I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.

Before, I didn't do celebrity stuff, 'cause Kathy Griffin did that, but now, if you're going to make jokes on Twitter, you have to stay current.

One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.

The thing that's frustrating about improv is that even if you have the best show in the world, it's over when it's over. You get to build stand-up - I really like that aspect of it. I like writing jokes, and you don't get to do that in improv.

To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

I always like to make some jokes, sometimes.

Social media should be more like a cocktail party than anything else. You can have your fun jokes, and you can also express yourself and your beliefs. It's a conversation, not a sledgehammer.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I love making jokes on the Internet.

I like the idea of using cool cyberpunk stuff to tell really stupid jokes.

I still like to shock, but the jokes are less sexist. It's just that, at one point in my stories, there was some sense of pride, some enthusiasm, and now I'm just embarrassed by myself.