Barrels Quote by Bill Burr

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked…

— Aziz Ansari

Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it.

— Milton Berle

You can't always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you've just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn't…

— Doug Benson

You have to make a joke every 10–15 minutes. It’s a way of keeping up morale.

— Silvio Berlusconi

I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of…

— Taran Killam

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it…

— Judd Apatow

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

— Sarah Millican

Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.

— Sarah Silverman

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

— Dave Attell

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

— Carl Hiaasen

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to…

— Stephen Colbert

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

— Denis Norden