(676 quotes found)
“A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.”
Max Eastman
“If you know me you know how uncool I am. I stutter, wear bad clothes, make bad jokes, make conversation uncomfortable, the list goes on. Thank you for making me feel okay.”
Pete Wentz
“I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.”
Tina Fey
“Jokes in sitcoms only work when they're not conspicuous and they reveal character.”
Dylan Moran
“How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.”
Samuel Beckett
“I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that's really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change… I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.”
Jon Stewart
“Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
George Orwell
“Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.”
Jessica Mitford
“And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But 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
“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”
Mark Twain
