#jokes

Jokes are grievances. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#jokes

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them. ↗

— Paul Merton

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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

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#every #four #had #hadn #hit

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

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. ↗

— Frank Muir

#grin #humor #inflicting #jokes #masculine

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

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#almost #anything #anywhere #being #especially