Mark Russell Quotes

I do love jokes.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.

I like humor.

A joke's a very serious thing.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

There is a universality to comedy.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

I love my jokes.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.

Humor is the ultimate truth. If it’s not true, the joke is not funny.

My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Puns are a form of humor with words.