Quotes About Jokes

I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.

Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.

I'm sure there are comedians who make jokes about me, but say something funny, not mean.

Ceawlin is good at both business and the fun side. We laugh at the same old jokes, and the boys get funnier every day.

My dad loves going backstage. I try not to have him give too many jokes to people.

I'm one of the people who actually laughs at everyone else's jokes!

Don't get me wrong, I'm under no illusions, I've got a very old-school, mainstream leaning to the way I present my comedy because I actually like jokes and don't just do observational stuff.

Going on stage is a performance, it's an act; you're playing a version of yourself. I don't give it a lot of thought. I clock on, I tell jokes, I clock off again.

It's fun to pick the worst jokes you can think of.

Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

A good comedian can say things funny and other guys just say funny things.

Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet. (Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)

It sometimes happens at the end of a dinner, when jokes and walnuts are cracked together, that the paternity of some trite quotation is put in question, and at once the wit of the whole company is set wool-gathering.

She inspected him lying on the deck, and he raised a fist in a gesture of solidarity. "Radiant the Lopen," Rysn said, ". . . um, what do you call a Thaylen who can't walk?" "Not sure, gancha." "Names. From afar." He grinned widely. "Of course," Rysn added. "I'd never stand for that sort of thing." The Lopen about died from laughing. He called to his cousin again, translating the jokes. This time Huio chuckled.

The increasing seriousness of things, then that's the great opportunity of jokes.

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.

There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

All the traveling means I'm constantly writing and testing new jokes.

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.