Subject: Situations (Page 33)

Never try to pick up a woman who is wearing a Super Bowl ring.

(1949 – 2016) American comedian & television actor

You will save yourself a lot of needless worry if you don't burn your bridges until you come to them.

My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him… but I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

She's Cherokee Indian, which is great 'cause whenever we have sex, it rains.

(1970 – ) American actor, producer & stand up comedian

As soon as the hospital made me put on one of those little gowns, I knew the end was in sight.


We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

(1872 – 1956) English essayist, parodist & caricaturist

Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest? … What is the logic in that? … do tall people burn slower?

(1963 – ) American comedian & writer

Gimme:  An agreement between two losers who can't putt.

(1907 – 1987) American journalist & author

My uncle was a hypnotist who, “d i d … n o t … t o u c h … m e … w h e n … I … w a s … y o u n g !”

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

(1879 – 1964) British politician

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

(1962 – ) writer & journalist

With a black president, I can relax…I can dance in public… I can buy a whole watermelon now.

(1964 – ) American writer, stand-up comedian, actress, television host

I know a couple who get on like a house on fire; they both feel trapped and are slowly suffocating to death.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

Although it is a far cry from there to here, he laughed all the way.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?


My wife, she’s another one. Last night our house caught fire and I heard her tell the kids, “Shhh, be quiet; you’ll wake your father.”

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I went into a clothes store and a lady came up to me and said “if you need anything, I’m Jill”… I’ve never met anyone with a conditional identity before.

(1973 – ) American comedian

I almost broke both my arms trying to hold open a revolving door for a woman.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I wear my heart on my sleeve… I wear my liver on my pant leg.