Jacob M. Appel Quote

Always warm up the audience with a joke.... If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke....

Sphinx Society lecture, Brown University, April 3, 2003 (as reported in the Brown Daily Herald)

Always warm up the audience with a joke.... If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke....

Always warm up the audience with a joke.... If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke....

Always warm up the audience with a joke.... If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke....

Always warm up the audience with a joke.... If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke....