I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?
When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.
I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.
Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!
Jokes are very curious things psychologically.
I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.
I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
One can make a joke, but one can't be one.
We didn't choose the joke because it's filthy! We chose it because of the structure!
I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if you got technical. A lot of this is just selective outrage because honestly, the audience are the ones that tell us that something shouldn't be spoken. The audience lets us know. And I've never, in my almost 30 years of being a comedian, seen a comedian continue to tell a joke that the audience doesn't respond to. I've never seen it.
You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.
Please use anger for something positive like hurting people that deserve it or writing jokes.
I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
My best friend is disabled. There's nothing he hates more than being left out of the jokes, to be treated with kid gloves. That's the insult.
Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.