A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
笑话
Joke
I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.
我不是一个伟大的笑话作家，这对于一个喜剧演员来说很奇怪，但我不是。
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
你真的要开始用功了，因为这可不是闹着玩的。
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
如果你太过努力地演喜剧，你就能把笑话里有趣的东西都抹杀了。
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
我经常拿自己开玩笑，说我很自私，但我不虚荣。
It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
我认为，在电影里当演员要比在情景喜剧里讲笑话容易得多。
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
我认为，当你过分剖析一个笑话时，你就毁掉了喜剧中的一切。
After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
过了一段时间，一个笑话，如果你说得太多，就会变得做作，或者听起来很假。
I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.
我喜欢做任何笑话的六个版本，所以如果他们给我六次机会，我很乐意去做。
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
如果你愿意，你可以自己读康德;但是你必须和别人分享一个笑话。
I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.
我不认为自己是喜剧演员，因为我不太在意笑话。
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
幽默总是建立在一点点事实的基础上。你听过关于岳父的笑话吗?
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
人们混淆了笑话的主题和笑话的目标，而且他们很少是一样的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
邻家女孩的形象是一种玩笑;多年来，我除了扮演一个黑暗的角色外，再也找不到其他的角色。
I hope life isn't a big joke, because i don't get it.
我希望生活不是一个大笑话，因为我不明白。
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
喜剧对我来说只是一种技巧，也许这是一种自然的技巧，如果我能在写作中看到笑话在哪里，我能看到设置在哪里，我能知道这就是制作喜剧的方法。
Jest with your equals.
和你的同龄人开玩笑。
I start with the joke line and write backward.
我从笑话开始，倒着写。
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
诗歌就像一个笑话。如果你在一个笑话的结尾把一个单词拼错了，你就失去了整件事。