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Quotes About Jokes

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.
~ Jason Statham
I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.
~ Mitt Romney
HI I'VE JOINED THE NINETIES!" it began. He wrote a few little stories, what he'd been doing that week, a couple of jokes.
~ Mitch Albom
Ovaj svijet ne?e uništiti atomska bomba, kao što kažu novine, nego ?e umrijeti od smijeha, od banalnosti, od ismijavanja svega, i zato što ?e od svega praviti vic, i to loš vic.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.
~ Yolandi Visser
You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
~ Adrian Edmondson
Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide . . . though he's amiable enough, keeps cracking jokes back through the loudspeaker . . .
~ Thomas Pynchon
We were probably not as lighthearted as Clooney and Sandra Bullock. We didn't tell too many jokes when people were in some position of jeopardy outside the spacecraft, but I think that's the humanity coming through in the characters. This movie gave great clarity to looking down and seeing the features of Earth ... but there weren't enough clouds, and maybe there was too precise a delineation from space.
~ Buzz Aldrin
The rain keeps up throughout the next day. "Lovely English summer we're having," everyone jokes.
~ Gayle Forman
No joke will work if you have to furnish a detailed explanation with it.
~ Gene Perret
I didn't play practical jokes at home. I had a strict upbringing, which is part of my rebellion. I was raised Catholic and went to parochial school, which is why priests and nuns appear in my movies a lot, and I don't have very much nice to say about them.
~ George A. Romero
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
~ George Eliot
His stuff . . . Oh. Ha! "In that case, it's hanging long!" Jack dissolved into giggles. "Long, get it?" "My brother, everyone." George bowed to an invisible crowd with a martyred expression. "A refined and sensitive creature.
~ Ilona Andrews
hated each other so much their feud had become legendary. Half the jokes in the galaxy started with "a vampire and an otrokar walk into a bar….
~ Ilona Andrews
Ye see, Rab, it's due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our soul is located anywhere in our bodies, it's up our arses. That's where it all goes. It makes sense. That's why we're obsessed with anal jokes, anal sex, anal hobbies... the arsehole – not the brain, not space – is the last frontier. That's what makes us revolutionaries.
~ Irvine Welsh
It's because of all the jokes that I became popular and got roles in comedy shows like 'Nadaniya' and 'Badi Dooooor Se Aaye Hain.' I thoroughly enjoyed doing these shows because I got the chance to step out of my comfort zone.
~ Alok Nath
A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.
~ Jack Herbert
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
~ Lenny Bruce
You need to tune into a different way of being funny for kids. They're learning the rhythm of a joke.
~ Graham Linehan
My comedy is my life turned into jokes. I think a lot of people wouldn't like that because you end up talking about stuff where you don't always come out so well. You have to be prepared to say, 'This is me, being a prat.'
~ Frank Skinner
I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and there is no one better at turning an awkward moment into something very funny.
~ Casey Affleck
On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.
~ Michael Haneke
I grew up in rural Ireland; we only had a few TV channels and had never even heard of sketch shows, but it was completely natural for me to tell jokes and stories.
~ Aisling Bea