“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
“The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.”
Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
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“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
George Bernard Shaw John Bull's Other Island
Act II
Source: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
This is actually from Ali's autobiography "The Greatest". However, this was said by Don King to George Foreman.
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Jimmy Carr (1972) British comedian and humourist
Nick Ahad (November 19, 2004) "Comedian who delivers some nice lines", Yorkshire Post.
“Vegans tell corny jokes, not cheesy ones.”
Mark Hawthorne (author) (1962) American activist
"Vegans Tell Corny Jokes, Not Cheesy Ones", in Satya (April–May 2007) http://www.satyamag.com/apr07/hawthorne.html
Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 313
“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright
This is actually a quotation of Socrates, as depicted in Cratylus by Plato
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“Bob: To God, homosexuality is no joke!”
Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) Christian comics writer
Chick tracts, " Sin City http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5003/5003_01.asp" (2001)
“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”
Hermann Hesse book Steppenwolf
Source: Steppenwolf (1927), p. 97
Context: You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.