“I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'” MenMadeSaidRememberBoysRightsConversationJokesMy FriendsSouthCivil RightsHeyRacistRacist Jokes Author:Al Gore
“I was feeling guilty in the beginning; it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.” PeopleFeelingsSuccessfulJokesMy FriendsMy FamilyGuiltyBeing SuccessfulFrustratingFeeling Guilty Author:Cindy Sherman
“English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.” HumansHuman NatureGoes OnJokesMy FriendsDoctorsOdd Author:Nancy Mitford
“Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.” SelfVoiceChallengesMy OwnOpinionJokesMy FriendsFamily And FriendsSelf DeprecatingSelf Deprecating Humor Author:Maria Bamford
“I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.” RememberFoundHouseStuffJokesMy FriendsCleanGlassesHorrible Author:Courteney Cox
“The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.” IfsWayMeanIdeasStoriesUsedQuietSafeJokesMy FriendsBoringFascinatingSense Of HumorBetrayKeeping Quiet Author:Robyn
“I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh.” PeopleKnowsHumansLooksSeemsSexLaughingBehaviorJokesMy FriendsHuman BehaviorLook At MeSync Author:Nicolas Cage
“People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.” PeopleWritingWellsJokesMy FriendsBrilliantReferring Author:Nick Offerman
“My friends joke because I will take my clothes off, at the drop of a hat.” ClothesJokesMy FriendsHats Author:James Cromwell
“My friends often say I'm the most racist person they know against Asians. And it's sort of like, "If I make the joke first, then I have the power and I'm holding the cards and you're not going to put me down for that."” IfsKnowsFirstsPersonsJokesMy FriendsCardsRacist Author:Pearl Tan
“I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.” ThinkingSongCuttingRocksJokesMy FriendsTeethTeenagerAmusingGenesisAccordionsPolkaRock SongMedley Author:Al Yankovic
“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
“My friends joke that I love planning things - which I do - and the reason is because there's so much I want to do, so many things I want to see and experience. If I don't actively pursue these things, I will never do everything I want to do, in life and in my career. That's what gets me up in the morning.” IfsWantReasonCareersMorningJokesMy FriendsPlanningPursuePlanning Things Author:Benjamin Stone
“I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to think of stuff that's real broad, but the more personal it is, the more universal it is. All my friends go through the same stuff.” ThinkingTryingRealStuffViewsComedyJokesMy FriendsUniversalPoint Of ViewBroads Author:Roseanne Barr
“My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.” PeopleWantStuffCompanyBuildingJokesMy FriendsValuableValleysSiliconSilicon ValleyCool Stuff Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.” ShouldLongSoulEndsLife IsLinesImagineStrangeJokesUnderstoodMy FriendsThickAccents Author:Tom Robbins
“My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.” MusicRight NowJokesMy Friends Author:Lady Gaga