Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.
Nixon started auditing late-night show hosts because they were making jokes about him. Then, every single one of their staff got tax audits.
When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.
I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in.
I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
I've actually phased out the misogynistic jokes because I used to think that everyone knew that I was joking.
Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.
I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.
Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.
My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There's still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.
I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.
I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.
When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.
Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
