Everybody I know is a joke writer..

I don't think I've ever died on stage. I've had jokes that died on stage. I've told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn't know it was the end of….

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job..

It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense..

Is everything a joke to you?” I asked. He dabbed his tongue to his lip again. “Not everything.” “Like what?” “You..

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future..

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke..

There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind..

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke..

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance..

I tell the most horrible jokes..

Some people, they just don't get a joke..

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener..

Desegregation is a joke..

I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke..

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me..

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs..

If a joke is too hard to visualize, I tell the young comics, then what the hell good is it?.

I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a lot of little jokes and asides t….

Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it..

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense..