“A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and how you decide to defend yourself from the world. Some people - their defense mechanism is, I'm really smart or I'm sexy or I'm the leader. And other people - they hide or they make jokes.” PeopleWorldHappensSchoolLeaderCollegeSmartJokesHigh SchoolSexyDefenseMechanismTurning PointsReally SmartDefense Mechanisms Author:Judd Apatow
“In high school, my friend and I discovered that your cable-access station had to let you do whatever you wanted - it was like the Wild West. We made a couple weird things, like a tribute to the Zucker brothers, where we had a panel discussion about the Naked Gun movies. We wrote a script and made jokes that I'm sure were terrible and showed clips of The Naked Gun without permission.” MadeWantedSchoolBrotherCoupleTerribleJokesGunHigh SchoolMy FriendsWestScriptsAccessNakedDiscussionStationsPermissionCablesTributeWeird ThingsClipWild West Author:Michael Schur
“I know what you're thinking: why is Chris Rock bagging groceries? But I dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, so if I couldn't tell jokes this is exactly what I'd be doing.” IfsThinkingKnowsSchoolRocksJokesHigh SchoolGradesGroceries Author:Chris Rock
“My mom was my English teacher in high school. So to be able to bend the rules and be the class clown and get to take on my religion, my mom, and my town all at the same time was glorious. I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit. If you're cracking a joke in school, it's sort of anti-authority, but it's in the nicest, "Please like me!" way.” IfsThinkingWayAbleSchoolDesireBitsClassTeacherMomPleaseAuthorityJokesHigh SchoolTownsMy MomLike MeGloriousClownMixturesElbowsEnglish Teacher Author:Paul Rust
“All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.” ThinkingWarSchoolJokesHigh SchoolRememberedAmerican WarSpanish American War Author:David Mandel
“I don't do any jokes that old. I might have maybe one or two jokes from high school that I still do.” SchoolJokesHigh School Author:Dave Chappelle
“Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.” GivingWritingSelfCharacterStoriesSchoolFormNamesClassWatchesCreativeJokesHigh SchoolDatingComicGirlfriendSense Of HumorContemptReally GreatCreative WritingHandicappedDating SomeoneAnagramsOld Girlfriend Author:Lorrie Moore
“High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.” BigsSchoolLaughingFireJokesHigh SchoolTrackTrialsSurvivedOrdealsLife After High School Book:Midnighters #3: Blue Noon Source: Midnighters #3: Blue Noon
“When I was in high school, I was dating this girl and wanted to make her birthday really special. I showed up early to school and went around to every single one of her classes and left a rose with her teachers. Each rose had a note with a little inside joke.” LittlesWantedSchoolGirlLeftClassTeacherSpecialJokesHigh SchoolDatingRoseNotesUp EarlyThis GirlInside Jokes Author:Dave Franco
“First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot...and that's how I got to know the people 'half in' the society of my high school and we waved at each other over the bong. Then I got to know people by making jokes.” PeopleKnowsFirstsSchoolHalfJokesHigh SchoolPotWeedBongs Author:Stephen Colbert