A Quote by Jess Walter

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

Jess Walter

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Jess Walter
American - Author
Born: July 20, 1965

I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

J. B. Smoove

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

Wanda Sykes

The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.

Marc Maron

I think I have got a lot better as an interviewer. I let people talk now which is something you need to do. At the beginning I thought jokes, jokes, jokes, I am a stand up comedian but I think I have mellowed out now.

Alan Carr

People would say, "Oh, you say you just do jokes." I don't just do jokes. I do jokes. Jokes are important. They saved my life when I was younger. Hopefully we're making things nicer at the end of the day for people. That's the entire goal, and that's the touchstone and the North Star for the tone.

Stephen Colbert

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

David Nicholls

Not Going Out's jokes were based on the American mentality in terms of how often the jokes appear.

Lee Mack

I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

Bernard Sahlins

I use mother-in-law jokes, kid jokes, tax jokes - anything that works.

Nipsey Russell

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

Stephen Chbosky

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

Fred Allen

When I start gearing up to do each new season of 'Murdoch', my wife will often catch me out. I start speaking differently. I start enunciating, and start using certain highbrow words, and things like that.

Yannick Bisson

When you start living in with a person, over a period of time, you could start losing interest. That's when you could lose out on important things and marriage is one of those big things.

Ankita Lokhande

I don't walk into a place, start cracking jokes and become the centre of attraction. You will always find me in a corner with one or two people, having personal conversations with a glass in my hand.

Kiku Sharda

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Jack Dee

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