#joke

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#advice #grave #joke #more #sometimes

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#i #joke #laughed

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#chemotherapy #darkest #ever #friends #going

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#i #inappropriate #jokes #laugh #make

Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#best #best part #club #comics #different

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to. ↗

— Matt Groening

#being #condescended #every #everybody #get

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!' ↗

— Matt Groening

#because #education #frame #get #head

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level. ↗

— Matt Groening

#books #college #completely #different #different level

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#be different #better #bottle #cares #changed

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#i #into #involved #jokes #keep