#jokes

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#back #comic #enjoyed #far #how

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#always #began #competitions #daniel #did

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

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. ↗

— Mike Myers

#dumb #i #jokes #like #smart

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created. ↗

— Lawana Blackwell

#family #home #humor #jokes #family

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