Comedy Quote by Paul Auster

It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the…

— Steven Wright

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

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy…

— Ron Shock

To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose…

— David Salle

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

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Once you even acknowledge that there is a line, that there are things you shouldn’t be allowed to joke about, that there are words…

— Al Franken

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

— Joey McIntyre

A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.

— Bob Saget

I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.

— John Oliver

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

— Dave Barry

It's difficult to differentiate between a story that's humorous and clever and one that actually makes people laugh out loud.

— Mick Foley