Jon Lovett Quotes

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.

I do love jokes.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

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 still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.