Jest Quotes

I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

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

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I am a ham, I like to joke around.

If someone could get off a good joke every ten days I think our troubles will be over.

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

Yeah, I am fun loving. I do crack jokes at times too.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

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

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Me and fellow scouser Toni Duggan are a double act. We are always pre-planning some sort of practical joke.

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

I did hold the language laws of Quebec up to ridicule because they are officious and ridiculous.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.