#joke

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

But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#bang #could #doing #had #i

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed. ↗

— Owen Hart

#bottom #bret #brother #come #everyone

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#jokes #life #mean #my life #old

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#joke #some #sufferer #sure