I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.
I'd buy joke books and try doing them at school; I always had jokes. That would be my go-to thing at parties: I'd be able to get through them if I just told enough jokes. Otherwise, I wouldn't end up talking to anybody.
We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times. . . It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
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.
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.
It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.
Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.
I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive. . . The refrigerator.
I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.
I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8. 50
If a joke is too hard to visualize, I tell the young comics, then what the hell good is it?
I've never had sex. Never wanted to. Not with a man or a woman or an animal, though my family jokes about it. And I never will. The thought of it disgusts me.
I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.
I don't like jokes about sex or bodily functions or drug use or the difference between New York and L. A. I never do any of that.
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.