Woody says I can make jokes, but I don't get them - I'm always looking deeper for the meanings.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
I think it's natural if you're doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.
I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.
I watched the classics as a kid, and I could tell that Bugs Bunny in drag was a cartoon and a joke. It didn't make me start dressing in drag.
The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.
I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."
I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'
If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.
A joke's a joke; you can either take it, or you can't.
The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.
