A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Danny: I'm not joking, Tess. Tess: I'm not laughing, Danny.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.
It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
My friends always joke that I run on batteries.
Your mother, my mother, and mother of pearl walk into a bar, and the bartender says, “Hello, dad, you look more like whiskey than I remember. Have you been tanning?” To which all three mothers respond, “The French Revolution was the best thing ...
Walenski: I've been trying to remember things, CLEARLY remember things, from my past, but the more I try to think back, the more it all starts to unravel. None of it seems real. It's like I've just been dreaming this life, and when I finally wake up,...
[None of his literature students are paying attention] Jennings: Don't write this down, but I find Milton probably as boring as you find Milton. Mrs. Milton found him boring too. He's a little bit long-winded, he doesn't translate very well into our ...
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread. You never bake bread, he wrote, and we were still joking. Then it's like I woke up and baked bread, I said...
Chloë: There's never been a classic movie made in Bruges until now. Ray: Of course there hasn't. It's a shithole. Chloë: Bruges is my home town, Ray. Ray: Well, it's still a shithole. Chloë: It's not a shithole! Ray: What? Even midgets have to tak...
Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that.
You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.
I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
