Jokes Quotes
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I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.
Bill Burr
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I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
Merritt Wever
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I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.
Mike Myers
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
William Hazlitt
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Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.
Steve Martin
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Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.
Paul Reubens
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It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.
Sarah Silverman
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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.
Sunil Gangopadhyay
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I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.
Steve Finley
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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
Terry Eagleton
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It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.
Norm MacDonald
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I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.
Bruce Bruce
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When everyone jokes about (taking chances), there's a little bit of truth to it, ... Hopefully people have learned from what happened (at Sonoma).
Helio Castroneves
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When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."
Will Gluck
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My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.
Carrot Top
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I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.
Kathleen Madigan
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My friends joke because I will take my clothes off, at the drop of a hat.
James Cromwell
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High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.
Scott Westerfeld
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As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.
Alex Hirsch
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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
Ben Miller
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The funnest jokes for me to tell are the ones that are the newest. So I'm just constantly motivated to keep my eyes and ears open and have new stuff.
Brian Regan
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She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.
Nigel Cole