“I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.” PeopleBelieveBehindsJokesSittingGuitarSingersHonestlySincereSongwritersSinger SongwritersAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Casey Spooner
“I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.” PeopleThinkingJokesDisposable Author:Casey Spooner
“I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity that exists in the world between those people who do and those that don't. I can't say we walk about our guilt a lot, though. If we do, it probably comes out in the form of self-loathing jokes. But it's a tough thing to wrap your head around... the have's and have not's in the world.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLooksI CanSelfFormWalksJokesToughGuiltEnormousGood LifeWrapsLoathingPromptsSelf LoathingDisparityTough Things Author:Nicole Holofcener
“Surprisingly, a large number of people who fell out with their partners contacted us, saying that they would love to fly on a Virgle spaceship. But out of April Fools' jokes come real things, and I wouldn't be surprised, within the next 50 years, [if] there are one-way trips heading out into space with people on it. It would be very exciting.” PeopleIfsWayYearsRealWould BeNextSpaceNumbersFoolJokesExcitingPartnersOne WayAprilReal ThingsHeadingsLarge NumbersSpaceshipsApril Fools Author:Richard Branson
“And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to be able to sell my jokes. And if you're talking about somebody like Sam Jackson, they do that. Sam Jackson can do that. Sam Jackson can turn it into the spoken word that it was always meant to be and he can sell my jokes. And Christopher Walken can do it and a lot of people can do it, all right.” PeopleIfsAbleTurnsCan DoTalkingJokesSellsRhythmMeant To BeSpoken WordWordplaySam Jackson Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I keep on repeating something told to me by an American psychologist: "When you are making a joke about someone and you are the only one to laugh, it is not a joke. It is a joke only for yourself." If people are making a joke they have the right to laugh at me but I will ignore them. Ignoring doesn't mean that you don't understand. You understand it so much that you don't want to react.” PeopleIfsWantMeanLaughingJokesPsychologist Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Everything you see comes from inside. People don't see it but inside the dressing room we laugh and joke a lot so it's not just for the cameras. It's the way things are off the pitch too. We are happy for each other, it is all natural.” PeopleWayNaturalRoomsLaughingJokesCamerasDressingsDressing Rooms Author:Luis Suarez
“I started to make a joke that I had an imaginary friend underneath the let-out couch named Binky. I would never talk to him; I would only use him as entertainment for other people. I knew they thought that children had imaginary friends, so I was like, "I don't really believe in imaginary friends, but I want to feel like I do." I used to make a joke, "My imaginary friend Binky says this," because I knew it would get a laugh out of them.” PeopleWantFeelsBelieveChildrenUseUsedLaughingJokesEntertainmentImaginaryCouchesImaginary Friend Author:Keke Palmer
“Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensFunStuffFashionJokesBe GoodInsecurityMasteryGirlyFashion And Beauty Author:Rachel Bloom
“I think people love to be noticed, they love to feel included. A lot of people are flattered if you, you know, if you make jokes about them, or I think because it means they're known.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsMeanKnownJokesFlattered Author:Jennifer Saunders
“Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.” PeopleThinkingEffectsJokesIntentionArtisticSophisticated Author:Billy Corgan
“[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.” PeopleTasteJokesAbsurdGood Taste Author:Eric Andre
“I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."” PeopleThinkingYearsPersonsSaidEnoughWould BeYoungSpecialJokesIntelligentComedianGood EnoughPerformersRaysGood WritersHbo Author:Judd Apatow
“Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.” PeopleKnowsArtPlayTodayFormGamesChallengesFocusBattleSkillsJokesCatRapRapperSkillful Author:Nick Cannon
“I like to talk about very different topics. I like to jump around a lot because I don't want people to come see me and then for an hour I tell jokes about being a little person. I just don't want that to happen. I understand that it's part of me, that's the first thing that you notice and it's something that people are curious about.” PeopleWantFirstsLittlesPersonsDifferentHappensHoursJokesCuriousTopics Author:Brad Williams
“The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else.” PeopleFirstsMadeJokesMadMajority Author:Brad Williams
“If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, "That joke offended me," I'm still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them.” PeopleIfsSaidStillsBlackJokesCome UpMake SenseBlack PeopleOffendedAsian Author:Brad Williams
“It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong. You should not talk about Indian people," and the Indian people are over in the audience like, "I thought that joke was hilarious." That is so weird. Then why are you getting mad? You're burning unnecessary calories. You're getting made for the sake of getting mad. I don't understand it.” PeopleShouldPersonsMadeWhiteAudienceJokesMadSakeCome UpBurningIndianUnnecessaryCalories Author:Brad Williams
“It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no. You know what it is? People are adults and they know they're at a comedy show but every once in a while somebody isn't an adult and then for some reason, you know, it's lazy reporting. They're trying to create this thing that isn't happening. It's not like people go in there and are just sitting with laptops open getting ready to blog about every stupid joke.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingPersonsReasonShowsTalkingComedyStupidReadyHappeningsJokesSittingAdultsClimateLazySay AnythingBlogsClicksLaptopsBaitVery StupidComedy ShowsStupid Jokes Author:Bill Burr
“Friends are everything. They're people you can tell anything to, do fun stuff with, laugh at the same jokes with, who understand what you're going through 'cause they're going through it, too. Friends get it.” PeopleFunCausesStuffFriendshipLaughingJokesFun Stuff Author:Randi Reisfeld
“I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsWritingHardUsedForgetIssuesComedyGrewGrew UpJokesTablesIndianMaternity Author:Mindy Kaling
“I had a show that people thought used a laugh track. It wasn't; it was the real audience going crazy after everything that resembled a joke, that they could technically call a joke.” PeopleRealShowsUsedAudienceLaughingCrazyJokesTrackGoing Crazy Author:Norm MacDonald
“I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.” PeopleGivingWantedFunJokes Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.” PeopleWantWhiteCallingJokesHips Author:Richard Pryor
“Todd Glass has amazing energy on stage. Dave Attell is one of my favorites because he's a one liner comic who is always incredibly in the moment with the audience. As for newer people, I think Adrienne Iapalucci writes some great, dark jokes and Sean Patton has a hilarious voice on stage.” PeopleThinkingWritingMomentsEnergyVoiceDarkAudienceStageJokesGlassesComicOne LinerDaveSeanOne Line Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingDifferentEndsStoriesStageCarCryExampleKeysDadLosingJokesMy DadTricksUpsetDifferent WaysGirlfriendMy GirlfriendHaircutsCar KeysNew GirlfriendNew Haircut Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.” PeopleRealTogetherCultureJokesVariousComing Together Author:Stevie Wonder
“I've found great virtue in two-thirds of the way into the message; right before I'm really want to nail home a point, pausing to tell a joke or to tell a light-hearted story, because I know my audience has been working with me now for 20 or 25 minutes. And if I can get them to laugh, get oxygen into their system, it wakes up those who might be sleeping, so there's something about using a story to draw people back in right before you drive home your final point. In that case I think it's real legitimate just to use a story for story's sake.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayWantHas BeensI CanTwoRealStoriesUseHomeLightMightFoundSleepCasesAudienceLaughingVirtueMinutesMessagesDrawsJokesThirdsWake UpFinalsSakeNailsOxygenHeartedPausingLight Hearted Author:Max Lucado
“If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, 'Look, [Kanye West] called me and told me the line before it came out. Like, joke's on you guys, we're fine'.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksWould BeGuyAsksLinesFineJokesWestAsk Me Author:Taylor Swift
“Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over half a million guests... our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies... and Barack [Obama] has treated the American people to countless dad jokes.” PeopleYearsHas BeensAblePastHouseWhiteHalfMillionsDadJokesPrivilegeEightTreatedWelcomeCelebrateBarackHolidayWhite HouseGuestsChefCookiesOutstandingPastriesPastry Chef Author:Michelle Obama
“The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.” PeopleTwoGuyJokesExpectedAssAndrewTwo Guys Author:George Michael
“Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBigsPleasureWindJokes Author:George Michael
“I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are hate-crime people.” PeopleHateCrazyCrimeJokesOkayElectionHate CrimeCrazy People Author:Jen Kirkman
“[J.F Kennedy] was a congressman and a senator and he would go on to be president. I had that idea as a little boy, and I used to joke to people but nobody told me that his father was ambassador to England and that he was a war hero, and he was, you know.” PeopleKnowsLittlesIdeasWarUsedFatherPresidentBoysGoes OnHeroJokesEnglandSenatorsLittle BoysAmbassadorsCongressmanWar Hero Author:Mike Pence
“I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.” PeopleKnowsMeanPlayKidsFunJokesPressureIndependentStudiosHaving FunDo You KnowCookers Author:Joe Louis Walker
“People that do "bits" and "jokes" or "one-liners" are going by the wayside.” PeopleBitsJokesOne Liner Author:Jay Mohr
“You remember from watching the show, there are no "jokes." That's why if you see people on Twitter accusing me of being a "joke thief," I just tell them to come to one of my shows.” PeopleIfsShowsRememberJokesThievesAccusingAccusing Me Author:Jay Mohr
“I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that a mother is telling her children about how she met their father online. The majority of memories the mother has all have to do with really funny links he sent her, a music download that she loved, etc. - and because of these superficial details she fell in love with the father. Reading it today, it's hardly a dystopian story; it's simply a realistic story about how people actually meet.” PeopleChildrenStoriesTodayMotherReadingFatherMemoriesWrittenMinesMetsJokesMajorityDetailsDecadesEtcOnlineLinksRealisticSuperficialDystopianDownloads Author:Alexander Weinstein
“So many people joke that life with me - a professed lifelong penny pincher - must be tough. But [my husband] is a great money manager. And he helps me let go of my fear of spending while still being frugal.” PeopleStillsHelpingHusbandLetting GoJokesToughSpendingManagersHelp MeMy HusbandLifelongPenniesFrugalGreat Money Author:Michelle Singletary
“A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people.” PeopleThinkingPlayMomentsShowsFrontsSpeechJokesBillionsAwardsAward Shows Author:Tom Hanks
“It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a party? This record is all over the world, constantly overthrowing governments, invading, forcing people to follow what we call democracy, as in the cases I mentioned. As I say, if every charge is accurate, it's a joke, and I'm sure half the world is collapsing in laughter about this, because people outside the United States know it. You don't have to tell people in Chile about the first 9/11.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFirstsStatesGovernmentUnitedPartyHalfCasesUnited StatesDemocracyRecordsHappenedLaughterJokesAccurateSeptemberInterfereSeptember 11HackingChileInvading Author:Noam Chomsky
“In the Senate race I went for some candidate endorsement meetings and three people there asked me: Do you go to a therapist? Because they could not believe that with the beating I took in the mayor's race I could still come in there cracking jokes and talking about the issues!” PeopleBelieveStillsThreeRaceTalkingIssuesJokesMeetingsCandidatesSenateMayorsTherapistsEndorsements Author:Angela Alioto
“You think that sense of humor goes as far as our ideology. I think that ultimately, we have we have very interesting reactions on our show. People are constantly saying, "I love your-your show is so funny, until you made a joke about global warming, which is a serious issue, and I can't believe you did that. And I am never watching your show again."” PeopleThinkingBelieveMadeI CanShowsInterestingIssuesLove YouSeriousJokesReactionsIdeologyGlobal WarmingSense Of HumorVery InterestingSay I Love YouSerious Issues Author:Jon Stewart
“People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.” PeopleWorldWantFeelsWritingGovernmentCausesGroupsJokesWarriorAbsurdity Author:Jon Stewart
“I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing for arms control measures, détente, and so on. He's very high up, and we were talking about whether arms control could succeed. And only partially as a joke he said, "Well it might succeed if the high tech industry makes more profit from arms control than it can make from weapons-related research and production. If we get to that tipping point maybe arms control will work." He was partially joking but there's a truth that lies behind it.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsSaidGovernmentMightRememberLyingBehindsTalkingArmsIndustryInvolvedSucceedWeaponsJokesResearchYears AgoProfitProductionsRelatedTippingTipping Point Author:Noam Chomsky
“I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand how someone deems it necessary if somebody is in power to tear them down - I think that's really crucial. I make a lot of mean jokes about myself; as a theme, suffering seems to me a very interesting thing for comedy, but not the suffering of a particular individual.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanI CanSeemsSufferingIndividualInterestingComedyTearsParticularJokesBoringThemeCrucialVery InterestingInteresting Things Author:Dylan Moran
“I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I feel like you lean in to tell a joke. You don't back up. Comedy lives in that area. I've played amphitheaters, big clubs, and pool halls, and the most fun rooms hold anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people. That intimacy is where comedy really lives.” PeopleFeelsPlayBigsAbleFunRoomsComedySweetLike YouJokesAreasTheaterClubsSpotsIntimacyHallsPool Author:Michael Che
“For my job, I act tough. I'm not tough. On the street, I don't go out beating people up and this and that. I used to joke one time on the television station that I never... Everybody that I beat up deserved it. I never beat up an innocent person.” PeoplePersonsJobsUsedStreetsTelevisionBeatsJokesToughInnocentStationsOne TimeInnocent Person Author:Mr. T
“Even my bio on Instagram is like, 'That girl that fell at the Olympics.' Just as a joke. Because that's how people come up to me and that's what they say. That's how they remember me.” PeopleRememberGirlJokesThat Girl Author:McKayla Maroney
“When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad people, and I was working for slave wages anyway, so there were some times when I might have filled out a couple of blank taxi receipts and kept some petty cash. But like I say, I was very selective. It was only people that I thought were assholes. The people that I liked I went far and above saving them money, much less taking it. But that's it. I'm pretty moral. I don't even like stealing jokes.” PeopleMoralCoupleJokesSlaveStealingBad PeopleTaxi Author:Andy Richter