Comedy Quote by Anthony Marais

“How do jokes work? The beginning of each good one challenges you to think.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A good test of the appropriateness of a joke is whether the humor controls us or we control it.”

— J Oswald Sanders

“A joke is never a joke if it is at the expense of another person's feelings”

— Heather Wolf

“Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?”

— Gerald Schroeder

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

— Melinda Chapman

“It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech.”

— Herman Cain

“Is this some kind of joke?”

— Tim Johnston

“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Some jokes are less agreeable than others”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Humor is an absurd answer to a reasonable question.”

— Mark Bell

“The best jokes are often only understood by one other person.”

— Barry Humphries

“What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund