A Quote by Langston Hughes

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
American - Novelist
February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.

James Burrows

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

Jimmy Nail

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

Ernest Bevin

We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.

Zechariah Chafee

As far as outlining is concerned, I don't outline humor. I might right down a word or two to remind myself of a punch line I thought of, but the actual structure of a piece I really don't. I don't think it would really help me because for me the process is joke, joke, joke, joke.

Dave Barry

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

Don Rickles

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

Clifton Fadiman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Fadiman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Fadiman

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

Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.

Maren Morris

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 most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

Charles William Eliot

I enjoy watching a woman with really bad teeth and a good sense of humor struggling to use her lips and tongue to hide her teeth when she's laughing. I just stand there and tell her joke after joke after joke.