Jokes Quotes - Page 26

• I don't think I've ever died on stage. I've had jokes that died on stage. I've told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn't know it was the end of the joke.

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A belief in God may not be fully within me anymore, but there's still a belief in belief. The high drama and power of the Church has stayed with me. As a child in church, I saw grown men at the altar crying out for God's mercy. And the idea of someone doing that has become a joke in the popular culture, but when you are there and you see it, you experience - for a moment - an incredibly raw, honest, strange insight into what it means to be a human being. Those experiences don't leave you. Whatever you think of them, they are powerful experiences.

  Ayana Mathis

  Children, Powerful, Drama

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who happens - and yes, by choice, and for a long time now - to live in this particular place, and where, as the joke goes, there are only three seasons: July, August, and winter.

  Jack Driscoll

  Winter, Thinking, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

  Jack Driscoll

  Sometimes, Adolescence

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I went to London a lot as a young designer because London was a major inspiration, not only for the clothes but the sense of freedom. I remember going to see a stage production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in the mid Eighties and loving the mix of Goth and humor, and in my shows I've always liked to play jokes and have fun.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fun, Inspiration, Remember

  Source: wwd.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.

  Tina Fey

  People, Laughing, Realizing

  Source: www.oprah.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'll be honest with you, one of the things that frustrated me the most out the record leak thing, it had nothing to do with record sales - I mean, that's a joke. Has anybody looked at how many records anybody sells anymore? If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you. It was just really personal.

  Bradford Cox

  Mean, Frustrated, Honest

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The older you get, the funnier fart jokes are.

  Andy Samberg

  Fart

  Source: www.glamour.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.

  Andy Samberg

  Letting Go, Humanity, Fart

  Source: www.glamour.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Laughter, Hate, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are species and whole lineages that go extinct - but basically novels and plays, and so on, will continue to exist. Jokes, as the lowest-cost form of narrative, will certainly continue to exist. They're a bit like microbes in the biological world. They're low-cost and they're everywhere. They're the most successful form of life, even though they're not the ones we think about most.

  Brian Boyd

  Successful, Thinking, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jokes are great capsules of information. I think they should never be censored. They often are offensive - and we're offended by different things - but I believe deeply in what Freud wrote of their relationship to the unconscious, which is that jokes come to help us. We laugh so as to dispense with, or to express, some ambivalence or discomfort with the things around us. That's what laughing is: a release.

  Lynne Tillman

  Believe, Thinking, Laughing

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I meet people I try to make a joke out of my occupation, explaining that what I do all day is sit alone in a darkened room, flicking through some pages, jumping on a treadmill now and then. I keep my serious work as a writer private, but that doesn't mean it's not serious work - quite the opposite.

  Lauren Groff

  Mean, People, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• Every day, there'd be somebody interviewing me as a "lesbian living in Russia." It got to the point where I would joke that I now have two jobs. I work as a writer and a journalist, and I also work as a lesbian. There's a big difference between being out and having that be your sole identity, the only reason that someone is talking to you. My twelve-year-old daughter said, "I have a new job as well. I work as the daughter of a lesbian," because she was also giving all these interviews.

  Masha Gessen

  Daughter, Giving, New Job

  4 Copy quote

• I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

  Samantha Power

  War, Trying, Zone

  4 Copy quote

• We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So I don't think they can really do a beginning, a middle, and an end anymore. There's an awful lot of one-line jokes; almost every line is a punchline. It's not the same, but there's still good comedy around.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, Lucky, Comedy

  4 Copy quote

• I did a guest shot on a comedy series where they did 20 to 30 takes of everything. It's just gone by then. The joke is over. It's not funny anymore, and then of course, the editor's the one that has to figure out the timing. I think a lot depends on that.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, Comedy, Timing

  4 Copy quote

• You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work in the production sense. Most of it is coming up with jokes.

  Katie Dippold

  Helping, Make Sense

  4 Copy quote

• It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random patterns. I need the joke to hurt more; I want it to sink deeper than the postmodern grin.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Hurt, Fun, Teenager

  6 Copy quote

• I certainly had qualms about writing my piece in the first place, since I knew I couldn't express my disdain for many of Rev. Falwell's teachings. But I don't regret having written about the sides of Rev. Falwell that had nothing to do with politics or religion - his grandkids, his ministry for ex-alcoholics, his penchant for practical jokes. I think it's important to recognize the humanity in everyone, even those we strongly disagree with.

  Kevin Roose

  Regret, Teaching, Writing

  5 Copy quote

• The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sad, Suicide, Intention

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.141, Verso

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

  Malin Akerman

  Shy, Comedy, Worst

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Housekeeping ain't no joke.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Work, Cleaning, Housekeeping

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.11.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking, Names

  4 Copy quote

• We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

  Fred Allen

  Historical, Competition, Comedian

  Fred Allen (2016). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.179, Pickle Partners Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source