Jokes are many things. 'Funny' is only one of them.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the…

— Ian Frazier

“Chubster is all for using hard science established through decades of serious study conducted by the world's experts in their respective fields -- with…

— Martin Cizmar

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

— Mitt Romney

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…

— Jon Stewart

I think people are a lot more sensitive than they used to be, and quite rightly so. I don't think we should be using…

— Lewis Grizzard

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

— Jon Stewart

Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is…

— Mark Steyn

No one lives their lives not making jokes about things.

— Bob the Drag Queen

“The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.”

— Stephen King

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

— David Shrigley

Now, you can bring up the past, but anybody can bring up the past. Even my daughter brings up the past sometimes. She makes…

— Metta World Peace

“You shouldn’t make jokes about these things,” she said. “Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know.” “It’s got all the best questions, though,”

— Ben Aaronovitch

There's things that I couldn't joke about but other people could.

— Jimmy Carr

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has…

— Jean Webster

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

— Paul Auster