I got all sorts of great Nebraska jokes.
One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.
I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented, but it just sickens me to do them.
I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.
I’ve still got a bit of angst about campaigning for a particular party. I want to write jokes about whoever I want without toeing a party line.
Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory about my jokes, because they're really about me; they're my stories.
I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch line.
I'm kind of a nerd. A square. And I'm terrible at telling jokes. I always forget the punch line.
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
I prefer sayings over jokes.
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines.
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.
It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.
Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.
I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
