Showing posts with label One liners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label One liners. Show all posts

Steven Wright One Liners

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
It’s a small world but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
I think it’s wrong that only one company makes Monopoly.
When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.
Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?
A clear conscience is usually a good sign of a bad memory.
I went to the General store, they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
I bought some instant water, but I didn’t know what to add.
How young can you die of old age?
It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is, it’s always room temperature.
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
What a nice night for an evening.
All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.
My friend George is an AM radio DJ and when he walks under a bridge, you can’t hear him.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues in all the other museums.
I installed a skylight in my apartment and made the people who live above me furious.
I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether or not I have claustrophobia.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I’m addicted to placebos.
I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time.
Ok, what’s the speed of dark?
In Vegas I got into an argument with a man at the roulette wheel about what I considered to be an odd number.
I was trying to daydream but my mind kept wandering.
I saw a bank that said, “24-hour banking” but I don’t have that much time.
I had to stop driving my car for a while, because the tires got dizzy.
I invented the cordless extension cord.
Sometimes I wish that my first word was ‘quote’ that way on my death bed my last words could be ‘end quote.’
If you tell a joke in the forest and nobody laughs, is it a joke?
If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
So do you live around here often?
If you can’t hear me it’s because I’m in parentheses.
Do you think when they asked George Washington for ID, he just whipped out a quarter?
I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
If a word in the dictionary was misspelled how would we know?
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
I replaced the headlights on my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I’m the only one moving.
The ice cream truck in my neighborhood plays Helter Skelter.
My grandmother is also insane, she’s got pierced hearing aids.
My brother was a clown for the Ringling Brothers Circus and when he died all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
I remember when I was a fetus I used to sneak out at night when my mother was sleeping.
If I ever had twins, I would use one for parts.
I wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.
Every morning I get up and make instant coffee so I’ll have enough energy to make the regular coffee.
I woke up and was folding my bed back into a couch and I almost broke both my arms because it’s not one of those beds.

One liners 5

The first time I got a universal remote control, I thought to myself, ‘This changes everything.’

Whiteboards are remarkable.

I have a few jokes about unemployed people, but none of them work.

‘I have a split personality,’ said Tom, being Frank.

Will glass coffins be a success? Remains to be seen.

The man is a seasoned veteran. He's survived both mustard gas and pepper spray.

I spilled spot remover on my dog, now he’s gone. (Steven Wright)

What’s another word for Thesaurus? (Steven Wright)


Demetri Martin One Liners


Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologise.' Except at a funeral.

I am bravery. I am courage. I am valour. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.

I used to play sports. Then I realised you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.

Also

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.

My favourite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

One liners 04

I'm on a whiskey diet … I've lost three days already. (Tommy Cooper)

What Iran needs now is a more modern leader - a mullah lite. (Shappi Khorsandi)

They hired a three-piece band that was so lousy, every time the waiter dropped a tray, we all got up and danced! (Les Dawson)

I have an L-shaped sofa… Lowercase. (Demetri Martin)

Crime in multi-storey car parks is wrong - on so many different levels. (Tim Vine)

My wife - it's difficult to say what she does. She sells seashells on the seashore. (Milton Jones)

In Scotland the forbidden fruit is fruit. (Gary Delaney)

Life is like a box of chocolates. It doesn’t last long if you’re fat. (Joe Lycett)

Groucho Marx One Liners



Ralph F. Stitt, Rivoli Theatre, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

  • I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member.
  • Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
  • Women should be obscene and not heard.
  • I never forget a face, but in your case, I'll be glad to make an exception.
  • I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
  • Room service? Send up a larger room.
  • I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
  • I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
  • The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his chequebook open.
  • Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
  • He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
  • Look, if you don't like my parties, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, leave in a minute and a huff. If you can't find that, you can leave in a taxi.
  • How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.
  • From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
  • I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.
  • Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.
  • Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very
  • 'Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.'
  • There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit ... retire!
  • I could dance with you till the cows come home, on second thoughts I'll dance with the cows till you come home.
  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
  • Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.
  • Last night I shot an elephant in my pyjamas and how he got in my pyjamas I'll never know.
  • Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
  • I am a Marxist - of the Groucho tendency.
  • Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
 

One liners 03

I didn’t think orthopedic shoes would help, but I stand corrected.

Do refuse collectors have to be trained or do they just pick it up as they go along?

I was going to go out with my architect friends but they all had plans.

I can't stop myself making classical allusions - it's my Achilles heel.

I used to have an addiction to lollipops, but now I've got it licked.

Never read a pop-up book about giraffes. (Sean Lock)

Throwing acid is wrong. In some people's eyes. (Jimmy Carr)

One Liners 02

I was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger and bigger and then it hit me.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather… Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

Don’t you hate it when someone answers their own questions? I do.

I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. They’ll never expect it back.

Today a man knocked on my door and asked for a small donation toward the local swimming pool. I gave him a glass of water.

Blunt pencils are really pointless.

One liners

Chameleons are supposed to blend well, but I think it's ruined this smoothie.

Headline: Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake.

Googled 'how to light a cigar' and got 80,000 matches.

Piano is one of the hardest instruments to pick up.

I try to be self-deprecating, I'm just not very good at it.

Two peanuts were walking on the rough side of town and one was a salted.

When the biscuit got trodden on, it said "Oh, crumbs!"