A lawyer joke is an often self-deprecating type of humor about a lawyer or the legal profession. Lawyers when giving a talk, especially to the profession, often employ lawyer jokes as icebreakers.
Jokes told outside the profession where lawyers are commonly the object of contempt, scorn and derision may be sharper:
| “ | Q. What is the difference between a catfish and a lawyer? A. One is a scum-sucking, bottom-feeding scavenger. The other is a fish. |
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Famous quotes containing the words lawyer and/or joke:
“The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself—a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)