#jokes

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#first #jokes #opinion #shouting #story

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars. ↗

— George Mikes

#better #even #jokes #least #longest

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#happy #how #humour #i #i think

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#elastic #jokes #making #realism #surreal

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#dinner #husband #i #invite #jokes

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#funny #go #honesty #jokes #most

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe. ↗

— Emo Philips

#comics #copy #duplicate #head #heads

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#conflict #dissent #easier #issues #jokes

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ↗

— Will Rogers

#facts #government #i #jokes #just

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny. ↗

— Mark Russell

#both #both sides #funny #i #i do