#jokes

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#cracking #going #hyper #i #idea

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#comedy #films #hold #i #jokes

If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#cracking #forget #jokes #just #just be

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#every #hundred #jokes #ten #you

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#jokes #me #minutes #realize #really

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#behind #confident #first #forward #i

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#day #grandma #hard #hard day #her

Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead. ↗

— David Crystal

#jokes #language-play #humor

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#imagination #jests #jokes #memory #imagination

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#funny #jokes #meaning #trying #funny