#joke

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#finding #going #interest #joke #kid

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#beginning #books #death #done #end

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#anything #being #born #care #charlotte

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. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#here #i #jokes #laugh #make

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#character #comfortable #everything #feels #hit

For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career. ↗

— Perry Como

#amount #career #dance #enjoyed #had

My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#chicken #colonel #go #i #joke

Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke. ↗

— Dane Cook

#great #joke #nothing #than

Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?' ↗

— Sidney Crosby

#doing #even #good #joke #like

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny. ↗

— David Cross

#funny #i #idea #joke #original