When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.
The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.
I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.
Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!
I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.
One can make a joke, but one can't be one.
A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
If sex isn't a joke, what is it?
I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a lot of little jokes and asides that aren't necessarily part of the main story.
I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.
As we approach the millennium with sort of the idea that society is going to start spiraling into chaos, I'd love to be making jokes about that. Who wants to miss out on that? If the world is going to end, I want to be there the night before, goofing off.
I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.
The Mexican. . . is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid.
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.