Comedy Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

— Isaac Asimov

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

— Niels Bohr

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

— Peter David

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

— Penelope Gilliatt

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots…

— Steven Moffat

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

— Mark Twain

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

— George Bernard Shaw

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility…

— Colson Whitehead

Creating jokes, sometimes it's the experience of life and it's also practice and most of the time writers' help me.

— Sunil Grover

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

— Paul F. Tompkins