Humor & Life Quote by Joe E. Lewis

A good joke about aging doesn’t try to sound wise; it admits the machinery is still running even when the driver can’t explain the destination. Joe E. Lewis, a nightclub comic forged in the era of tuxedoed one-liners and late-hour confessionals, lands this line by splitting desire into two parts: the impulse and the explanation. The first is stubbornly alive. The second has quietly retired.

The phrasing is doing the heavy lifting. “Still chasing girls” carries the brash, old-school bravado of a man who’s supposed to want what men always wanted. Then comes the undercut: “I don’t remember what for.” It’s not just forgetfulness as a punchline; it’s a sly admission that the cultural script of heterosexual conquest can outlast its actual pleasures. He’s poking at masculinity as habit, not identity: the performance continues because it’s been rehearsed for decades, not because it’s still meaningful.

The joke also smuggles in a kind of tenderness. “Girls” is intentionally dated, a word that makes him sound both charmingly out of step and faintly suspect, which is part of the comic tension. Lewis is winking at his own anachronism, acknowledging that the chase is less romance than routine, less erotic certainty than muscle memory.

In the mid-century comedy world, where vulnerability was often disguised as swagger, this line is a rare, clean glimpse of the fear underneath: not that desire fades, but that the reasons we build our lives around can become blurry while we keep sprinting anyway.