Element of surprise Quote by Riki Lindhome

Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path…

— Josie Long

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

— David Spade

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

— George Carlin

Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

— Demetri Martin

The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after…

— Charlyne Yi

The secret to humor is surprise.

— Aristotle

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

— Bill Watterson

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

— Chris Hardwick

You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising.…

— John Lloyd

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing -…

— V. S. Naipaul

A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is…

— Greg Giraldo

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche