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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Comedians aren't funny, because comedians try to be funny, and people who try to be funny aren't funny.”

— Anonymous Blog Post

“A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny.…

— Michael Monroe

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

— Storm Jameson

“Sometimes, humor makes more sense than reasoning.”

— Toba Beta

“Humor is an absurd answer to a reasonable question.”

— Mark Bell

“A joke is a question of mind over manner.”

— Anthony Marais

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

“The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“A good test of the appropriateness of a joke is whether the humor controls us or we control it.”

— J Oswald Sanders

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

— Max Eastman

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can…

— Matt LeBlanc