You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch…

I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.

— Carl Reiner

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much…

— Walter Cronkite

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the…

— David Cross

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

— Rita Rudner

I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it…

— Ron White

You know, I liken it to - when you write a joke for somebody else, it's like you - you know, like the Wile…

— Neal Brennan

If I write a joke and it works, and it works consistently, that is gold to me.

— Sarah Millican

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where…

— Anthony Marra

If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.

— Ron White

Stand-up comedy is what I do, and it's so rewarding. If you write a joke and tell it to an audience of 15,000 people…

— Michael McIntyre

I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

— Judd Apatow

I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain…

— Ezra Furman

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy…

— Ron Shock

I never really feel like just standing there and telling jokes. I want to move around. In fact, it's hard for me to write…

— Chris D'Elia

If I can write a joke about something that happened that was awful, it's like OK that happened and I have this money.

— Taylor Tomlinson