A Quote by Charles Churchill

A joke's a very serious thing.

Charles Churchill

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Humor Joke Serious Thing Very

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Charles Churchill
English - Poet
1732 - November 4, 1764

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

Sean O'Casey

A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill

Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing.

Charles Churchill

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

James Gandolfini

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

C. S. Lewis

The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting 'joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.' They don't actually sit and listen to you.

Bo Burnham

It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now.

Claire Danes

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

Bob Woodward

In all honesty I think, sometimes with the LGBT community, if you look at anything else surrounding it, there's always been this oddness and sense of humor. I really appreciate that. It's kind of a hard world to take yourself too seriously. It's a good balance check. It's not serious all the time. I'm that way too, even though I write a lot of depressing music. A lot of times our shows are not very serious at all. We joke a lot and then we play a sad song and then we joke again.

Radical Face

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Jules Verne

When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.

Dave Barry

The hardest thing as somebody who does both is - and I'm very serious as an actor, and I consider myself very serious as a musician, engineer, music artist - is learning that it's OK to be versatile.

Kat Graham

If you manage to joke around and charm people, it means that from inside, you are very serious.

Rajpal Yadav

What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.