Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.
Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.
It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.
I'm here to make people laugh and help them forget their troubles, too! So I just try to bring heart and bring jokes!
Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.
Jokes are hilarious only when you take them unreal and dreamlike, otherwise it becomes painful. So I always live otherworldly...
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself.
I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.
I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.
