The Naked Jape Quotes

“Actually, seriousness is not incompatible with joking. It’s a common mistake to confuse ‘serious’ with ‘solemn’, and to assume that seriousness of purpose can only be conveyed by solemnity of tone.”
― Jimmy Carr, The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes

“People say, “Now you’ve given up booze at least you can remember what you did last night.” I say, “Yeah, nothing.” —Frank Skinner”
― Jimmy Carr, Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?

“In the normal run of things, we ignore the joke's dark underbelly. We laugh them off without much thought, but the jokes we tell and the jokes we respond to reveal a great deal about us.
They can function at once to conceal and to expose our deepest beliefs and bigotries.”
― Jimmy Carr, The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes

“Laughter is a release of tension on discovering that a perceived threat is not, in fact, a threat at all.”
― Jimmy Carr, The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes

“Or even, like the Union commander General John Sedgwick, during the American Civil War, 'They couldn't hit an elephant from this dist...”
― Jimmy Carr, The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes