As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.
I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!
There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.
I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
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.
Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried.
Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.
I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
Classifications as Jokes Confidential: snickers Secret: guffaws Top Secret: full belly laughs Unclassified: uproarious laughter and applause
Dr. Iris Hineman: I call it a gift, for them it was more like a big cosmic joke.
Dr. Alex Brulov: Apparently the mind is never too sick to make jokes about psychoanalysis.
Vice Admiral Rolland: Security? The word's become a bloody joke!
Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.
