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Quotes About Jokes

I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it.
~ Jon Favreau
I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.
~ Steve Breen
Children always know when company is in the living room - they can hear their mother laughing at their father's jokes
~ Unknown
Well over a decade before he (Freud) assigned to aggression a stature equal in dignity, perhaps superior in power, to the libido, he divided what he called "tendentious jokes", those with a point to make beyond sheer verbal felicity, into two categories: obscene and hostile . Here was, in embryo, the structural theory of the 1920s, a theory that treated the mind as a battleground between the forces of love and aggression, or, in his more grandiose formulation, of life and death.
~ Peter Gay
Watson loved them sour kind of jokes, which I enjoyed myself. I mean, ain't life some kind of a sour joke? Might's well laugh, that's the way him and me seen it, whether nice folks seen the joke or not. One time when Watson caught me grinning along with him, he give a wink and lifted up his hat.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Here's the second joke: Two psychiatrists meet on the street and say hello. "How are you?" asks one. "Eh, not so good," says the other. "I had a stupid misunderstanding, a slip of the tongue. I was visiting my mother out at the old folks' home. We were having lunch and I asked her to pass me the salt, but instead I said, 'You fucking bitch you ruined my life.
~ David Rakoff
Story-telling is pivotal to our well-being, as are nonethnic jokes and riddles.
~ David Sedaris
By this point it was 2:58, and I was starting to panic, thinking, I guess, that if I didn't give the money away by 3:16, the God I claim not to believe in, the one whose only son was used to sell nails in one of my favorite jokes, was going to smite me.
~ David Sedaris
Hay juegos que debemos tomar en serio, como el poquer, ahi hay dinero de por medio. Pero la guerra? Es un chiste.
~ Unknown
My agents love pranking me.
~ Winston Duke
The Academy represented to the ladies of Lud all that they knew of romance. They remembered the jokes they had laughed at within its walls, the secrets they had exchanged walking up and down its pleached alleys, far more vividly than anything that had afterwards happened to them.
~ Unknown
silly buggers
~ Ian Rankin
Tell me, Francis, do you buy your one-liners wholesale? Only they're well past their sell-by.
~ Ian Rankin
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
~ Ian St. John
Tant qu'on fait rire, c'est des plaisanteries. Dès que c'est pas drôle, c'est des insultes. It's a joke as long as people are laughing. If it's not funny, it's an insult.
~ Coluche
There's nothing worse than a celebrity trying to be funny. Unless it's a politician trying to be serious.
~ Craig Brown
That was *not* a joke, she said in mock disapproval. So you have no business to laugh. It is very sad when people don't see your jokes - and lots of people can't, for the life of them, see mine. My jokes are either very subtle or very poor - I can't think which it can be.
~ D.E. Stevenson
I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
But I really like our experimental, performance and monologue videos, where there's barely jokes in the video, where it's almost a joke in itself that the monologue is even being recorded.
~ Dave McCary
I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
~ Laura Benanti
Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge
A dork is a whale's penis.
~ Jill Shalvis
You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He
~ Jim Butcher
Jokes," the voice hissed. "Jokes will not save you now." "Hell's bells, Kravos," I muttered, sitting up again. "Do they produce a Cliched Lines Textbook for Villains or something? Go for broke. Tell me that since you're going to kill me anyway, you might as well reveal your secret plan.
~ Jim Butcher