Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.
I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random patterns. I need the joke to hurt more; I want it to sink deeper than the postmodern grin.
I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.
When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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.
I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.
Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.
I try to be personal, but that's not me, either. What seems to work best, and the tweets I enjoy reading the most, are when comedians just give jokes. It's a great joke of the day thing, especially revolving around current events. But that's not my forte either, so I find myself in no man's land with Twitter. I don't particularly enjoy giving me out to everyone.
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!
I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.
So, great. This is Camp…what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?” Aphros frowned. “I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________. ” He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses.
I can't imagine saying the same joke for three hours. I don't know how that would work.
When it comes to your life's work, you can't take yourself too seriously. Even Jesus had an occasional joke with the boys, take walking on water, for instance - but there's a time and place for fun. Jesus never faltered when it came time to tip over the money stalls or to take his hard walk up the mountain.
Every joke has its origin - the punching people in the face joke. It hurts like hell to get punched in the face.