Jokes Quotes

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

I do love jokes.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.