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Quotes About Jokes

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
~ Selma Blair
I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
~ Bernhard Langer
The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.
~ Joseph Epstein
Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
~ Mel Brooks
The only weapon we have is comedy.
~ Robin Williams
I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.
~ Bob Hope
Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.
~ Will Smith
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?
~ Samuel Beckett
God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
~ Garrison Keillor
Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.
~ Mark Twain
God, that Anthony Jeselnik Show sounds really funny.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
I have some speakers up here, thank God, because last night I didn't have them and I was telling jokes and I had no idea which joke I was telling. So I told jokes twice. I even told that one twice.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.
~ Robertson Davies
I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
~ Rowan Atkinson
You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
~ Matt LeBlanc
I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.
~ John Hodgman
There are always a lot of jokes and good vibes floating through the studio so tattooing all day doesn't feel like a job. It's rewarding to see my clients as excited as I am.
~ William Webb
A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.
~ Michael Showalter
I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
~ John Cleese
In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.
~ Robert Benchley
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
~ Will Rogers
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
~ Garrison Keillor
For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.
~ Mitch Hedberg