Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art… — Travis Nichols Copy Share Image
It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I just need a day off, from reality, just a day without people, problems, and all the bullshit that runs through my… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle,… — James Brolin Copy Share Image
Russell Crowe likes to tell jokes, which I can't. I can't remember a joke to save my life. I don't have a… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So one day as a kid I was at the local Zoo. I was bored and kept pestering my Dad to go… — Robert Paul Copy Share Image
Roger Ebert has had his right thumb trademarked. Now the police will actually have to pay him if he ever has to… — Andy Waits Copy Share Image
I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
I love bad comedy more than I love good comedy, so I love open mics. Or I used to. But the thing… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown?… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me,… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to… — William Hung Copy Share Image
I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else,… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else.… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbors house. — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it,… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz.… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Don't you love it when you're busy all you want to do is rest butttttttttttttt when your relaxing all you want to… — MrAwesome Copy Share Image
I want to get that same feeling that everybody logging on to our website is sharing a little bit of an inside… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image