Ifs Quote by Mark Twain

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 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

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian…

— Martha Graham

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

— Michael Crawford

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as…

— Dan Jenkins

Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.

— Mark Bonnar

Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.

— Scott Simon

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

— Judy Gold

That's the thing about comedy, there's something utterly delightful and slightly pure about a really good joke, and to create one is a great…

— Sean Lock