Everybody I know is a joke writer.

A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you…

— Eli Roth

I'm not a joke writer.

— Esther Povitsky

About a year after I moved to Los Angeles, I decided I wanted to be a joke writer for a late night talk show.…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Well, I like to have fun and be silly, and a lot of people who know me know I joke a lot and have…

— Marvin Bagley III

Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never…

— Adam McKay

I'm not good with jokes, no. I don't know a joke at all. I like being told jokes, but I can't tell one myself.

— James DeGale

I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind…

— Adam Carolla

Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the…

— Eric Andre

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than…

— Aya Cash

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.

— John Cooper Clarke

I'm not much of a joke writer.

— Ben Falcone

Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts jokes. Sometimes…

— Mindy Kaling

I love to write. I'm not necessarily a joke writer, but I think I can find a lot of comedy in humanity, in a…

— Heidi Gardner

As you can tell from watching the show, I'm not a strong joke writer per se.

— Janeane Garofalo

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

— Lewis Black