I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.
I start with the joke line and write backward.
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.
And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie.
A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke.
The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.
Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.
You know, OK, I made a few jokes and they killed 3000 Americans. Fair trade.
First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot. . . and that's how I got to know the people 'half in' the society of my high school and we waved at each other over the bong. Then I got to know people by making jokes.
Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.
You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.
I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.