Application Quote by Joseph Epstein

I was never a joke teller. I don't even like jokes, for the most part. I don't like to hear them, and rarely can…

— Ed O'Neill

I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.

— Carol Burnett

I love pure joke-tellers, but if I go to see a comedian for a full show, I want to feel I know them more…

— John Bishop

I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller…

— Steve Carell

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the…

— Mila Kunis

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

— Bruce Forsyth

Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of…

— Brett Gelman

“Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place.”

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Barry Humphries

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

— Bill Cosby

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything…

— Mark Twain