Howard Dean Quotes

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has a lot of jokes that have a beginning, a middle and an end, but it's not a real story. And you have someone that does great stories, the one that blends those things together - that person is doing comedy.

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

Every funny story has at least one unusual thing in it.

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes.

I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.