Take in some of the best jokes from the best jokesmiths.
Comedy is the silliest, stupidest art form - but an art form nonetheless. And like any medium, there are those who earned the title of legend. From Lenny Bruce to Patrice O'Neal, there are generations of comics that churned out some truly great humor.
Scroll through and see a hall of beloved, hilarious comedy legends
1
“My mother had a belt. The belt was her way of expressing herself.”
- Eddie Murphy
2
“Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview’”.
- Dave Chappelle
3
"A homeless guy asked me for money the other day. I said, 'Well, I was just gonna throw this $20 into the river, but sure, here you go.'"
- Norm Macdonald
4
“If I’m a racist, I’m an equal-opportunity racist. I don’t like anybody.”
- Patrice O’Neal
5
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
- Steve Martin
6
“I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”
- Mitch Hedberg
7
“Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.”
- Robin Williams
8
“It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper”
- Jerry Seinfeld
9
“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
Lenny Bruce
10
“It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.”
- Bill Hicks
11
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
- George Carlin
12
“I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.”
- Joan Rivers
13
“You're all gonna die. Then you'll be dead for way longer than you're alive, like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.”
- Louis C.K.
14
"I went to Zimbabwe once. I saw a sign that said 'Beware of Lions.' You know what the sign in America would say? 'Lions: Sponsored by Coca-Cola.'"
- Richard Pyror
15
“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.”
- Rodney Dangerfield
