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My whole life, I've been telling jokes. -- Brad Garrett
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it. -- David Alan Basche
Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments. -- Ray William Johnson
I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable. -- Malin Akerman
Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living. -- Jamie Foxx
People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart. -- Steve Harvey
I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end. -- Steven Wright
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes. -- Mike Epps
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Humor is an attitude, a survivor's way of looking at life. It's not about telling jokes. -- Michael Shurtleff
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it. -- David Alan Basche
There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there. -- George S. Kaufman
I'll be 50 years old tomorrow and that means, among other things, that now Bob Dole can start telling jokes about me. -- David Letterman
[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . . -- Doris Lessing
I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality. -- Adam Carolla
Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it. -- Nick Kroll
Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo? -- Rob Delaney
A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it. -- Michael Showalter
If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes. -- Buddy Hackett
I have some speakers up here, thank God, because last night I didn't have them and I was telling jokes and I had no idea which joke I was telling. So I told jokes twice. I even told that one twice. -- Mitch Hedberg
I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society. -- Lauren Worsham
Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes. -- Buddy Hackett
With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do. -- Frank Caliendo
I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh. -- Marlo Thomas
Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older. -- Tippi Hedren
A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes. -- Zac Efron
I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something. -- Steve Harvey
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying. -- Lea Thompson
Sometimes, at parties, people demand I tell a joke. It's like pointing a gun at my feet and telling me to dance. -- Celia Rivenbark
I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them. -- Josh Peck
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. -- Martin Freeman
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh. -- Simon Le Bon
Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer. -- Robert Orben
I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes. -- Carson Daly
I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus. -- Steve Finley
I love telling myself jokes. I think I'm a riot. -- Scott Stevens
There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living. -- Thom Yorke
You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard. -- Stephen Colbert
I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos. -- Robyn Hitchcock
Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing. -- Travis Nichols
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh -- Simon Le Bon
I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it. -- Richard Pryor
I made some jokes about weed, got some laughs, made some more jokes, got some more laughs; next thing you know, I'm telling a lot of jokes about it. -- Doug Benson

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