Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.
There's a difference between racism and people making a joke about something. There is true racism going on, and people should be able to identify what that is, comparatively.
I thought conceptual art was a joke.
Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
I write these shows one joke at a time. There's no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there's not continuity.
After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
I once did a flip-flop joke in San Diego, and I got booed... but it's all in good fun.
I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.
We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!