Serious Joke Quotes

#1. A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

William Stafford

#2. That's the Irish all over
they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

Sean O'Casey

#3. Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Arthur Machen

#4. As laughter is one way of appraising the serious, so the comic must be taken seriously if it is to be rated at its true value. No one understands a joke by laughing at it; he laughs at it because he understands it.

James Walsh

#5. I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.

T.I.

#6. I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

Bob Woodward

#7. I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both.

Sarah Dessen

#8. I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.

James Brolin

#9. I got so much out of 'The To-Do List.' This is a joke that I say about myself sometimes, in terms of my film career: I feel like I'm always playing the kid in serious adult movies. So, for me, it was so wonderful to suddenly be working with other people my age who were doing this on film.

Sarah Steele

#10. My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#11. One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

Bryan White

#12. Don't kid yourself. Global warming is no joke. Here's how serious global warming has gotten to be in the United States. In this country global warming is so bad, we are now actually starting to warm up to Barry Bonds.

David Letterman

#13. Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

Fred Durst

#14. Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.

Mel Brooks

#15. There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Werner Heisenberg

#16. Savitar stroked his chin. "Interesting, isn't it? What do you have to say about that, Fury?"
The muzzle vanished. "They're on crack."
Savitar shook his head. "Anyone else on crack?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

George Orwell

#18. She joked about her fears, but it was the kind of joke where you knew people thought it was ridiculous, and you pretended you thought so too, but underneath you were completely serious.

Janet Fitch

#19. You should know something about me. I joke around a lot. But I'm a pretty serious guy about some things. My job. My truck. My lucky boots." Which he just happened to be wearing tonight. "Making love.

B. J. Daniels

#20. Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

Gerhard Richter

#21. A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Jules Verne

#22. I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic.

LeCrae

#23. I only joke about really serious things,

Ali Smith

#24. You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide serious injury that has occured! Malachi has only one ear and is now wearing one of those joke rubber ones - it's very noticeable but people are too polite to say!

David Sneddon

#25. That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.

Miroslav Vitous

#26. Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

Nancy B. Brewer

#27. That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.

Sean O'Casey

#28. And suddenly it wasn't a joke. The further she went, the more serious Lassiter got, and the shakier Wrath's shellan became, as if the words she were speaking were ones of great value and meaning. This was tradition for her, he realized.

J.R. Ward

#29. It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Carla Bley

#30. They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter.

Eugene V. Debs

#31. It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

Vladimir Putin

#32. Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour.
Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.

Alexandra Adornetto

#33. There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"

Stanley Tucci

#34. Some two thousand stone-throwing protesters gathered in the street outside the school. They chanted, "We want fairness. There is no fairness if you don't let us cheat." It sounds like a joke, but they were absolutely serious.

Cathy O'Neil

#35. I have some bad feet. But really, my main fault would probably be my personality. A lot of times, I am not serious enough. I joke around too much sometimes.

Tim Hudson

#36. The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

George Harrison

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

Jeff Lindsay

#38. Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

J. R. Martinez

#39. Tell me my little children, what crime has this lizard committed that it must die this evening?" There was silence. In raising my head like a joke, I tried to laugh. That was the same time I realized that grandma was dead serious with us.Pg.26

Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

#40. It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

Plautus

#41. I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Kanye West

#42. For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

Baltasar Gracian

#43. Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat."
It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.

John Flanagan

#44. If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

Sacha Guitry

#45. Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

Wislawa Szymborska

#46. The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

Frank Zappa

#47. A joke's a very serious thing.

Charles Churchill

#48. A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston S. Churchill

#49. I think it's cool to play characters who are very joke-y and yet you can show a total serious, very somber side to them. You don't normally get that in a film - and in a [film] series especially. To be able to do that was really cool.

James Phelps

#50. I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

James Gandolfini

#51. Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Niels Bohr

#52. At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.

Saina Nehwal

#53. Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

Ted Danson

#54. Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Clarence Darrow

#55. You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences.

Auliq Ice

#56. I like to prowl ordinary places.
I feel sorry for us all or glad for us
all
caught alive together
and awkward in that way.
there's nothing better than the joke
of us
the seriousness of us
the dullness of us

Charles Bukowski

#57. Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious

Harry Toh Jun Shen

#58. When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

Matthew Perry

#59. I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Hank Aaron

#60. I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness
people and things that are compatible, love ... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.

William Faulkner