Marc Galanter Jokes Quotations

You can learn from them, you can see what is bothering people. ... The jokes are a screen on which people project their feelings about lawyers and the law.

A colleague asked me how many lawyer jokes there are. I told him just three ? the rest are documented case histories.

We have 500-year-old lawyer jokes still in circulation and most of them go back at least 100 years. But around the 1980s, there was a great shift. They became much more hostile.

I don't look to jokes as a balanced look at life. But they can be an indicator. Jokes work on shared and collective perceptions among people.