“Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.” PersonsTodayIgnoranceListeningJokesScientistBoast Author:Carlo Rovelli
“Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.” YearsListeningNewsJokesScientistYeahExtrasBad News Author:Conan O'Brien
“John Kerry now getting slammed by the Republicans because of a botched joke he did about President Bush and Iraq in a recent speech. Kerry was stunned about this. He said, 'What? People are listening to my speeches?'” PeopleSaidPresidentListeningRepublicanSpeechJokesIraqPresident BushJohn KerryStunned Author:Jay Leno
“For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.” HumorFunnyAudienceComedyMinutesListeningConversationJokesTwentiesFollowingCakeStand Up Comedy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.” IfsYearsBookThreeVoiceLordListeningHolyJokesAngelTwentiesDesertProphetThree YearsHoly Books Book:V. Source: V.
“I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally decline in their lives. That's not my motivation. I have a lot of cool things to do other than sitting around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and being compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that. If you want somebody who has a heart for people, who can fight for people, and can fix these things, then there are a couple other people, and I believe I'm the best one.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveHeartMotivationFightingI BelievePresidentListeningTrumpCoupleJokesSittingMiserableThings To DoDeclineDominantCompelledSitting AroundCool ThingsGridlock Author:Jeb Bush
“I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.” PeopleFeelingsWantedCareersListeningJokesExtraordinaryLaughedGreat Feelings Author:Chris Tucker
“I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindKidsSongListeningJokesSuicideDivorceSillyBlinkUnderdog Author:Mark Hoppus
“I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes. We could say things and people will catch them. That couldn't happen at a festival because nobody would catch it. I also like that in a smaller space people can be talking to each other and listening to the music; they don't have to be watching you the whole time.” PeopleAudienceListeningJokesIntimate Author:BØRNS
“It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support.” KindKidsLyingMotherSupportListeningJokesToughEncouragementAll Kinds Author:Tupac Shakur
“In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.” PeopleWantTwoWholeFacesListeningProjectsJokesBack And Forth Author:John Oliver