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"Comedy is acting out optimism."
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Robin Williams
"Comedy is acting out optimism."
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"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."
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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution."
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"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
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Mel Brooks
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
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"If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house."
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Gilbert Gottfried
"If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house."
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"I really wasn't a class clown."
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Kevin James
"I really wasn't a class clown."
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"I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person."
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Tracey Ullman
"I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person."
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"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
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Mel Brooks
"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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Bill Maher
"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."
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Mel Brooks
"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."
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"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
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Flip Wilson
"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
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"I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone."
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Flip Wilson
"I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone."
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"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
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Demetri Martin
"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
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"I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'"
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Demetri Martin
"I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'"
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"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats."
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Groucho Marx
"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats."
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"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
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Frank Carson
"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
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"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."
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Billy Connolly
"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."
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"Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone."
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Tommy Cooper
"Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone."
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"In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever."
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Simon Pegg
"In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever."
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"If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
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Johnny Carson
"If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
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"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."
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Howie Mandel
"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."
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"I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin."
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Joe E. Lewis
"I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin."
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"Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does."
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Joey Adams
"Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does."
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"Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?"
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Orlando Jones
"Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?"
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"I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir."
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Kate Clinton
"I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir."
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"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
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Rita Rudner
"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
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"I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry."
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Sam Kinison
"I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry."
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"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
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Groucho Marx
"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
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"No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds."
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Red Skelton
"No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds."
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"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."
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Norman Wisdom
"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."
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"I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now."
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Debra Wilson
"I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now."
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"In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there."
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Norman Wisdom
"In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there."
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"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
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Rita Rudner
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
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"We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs."
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Chevy Chase
"We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs."
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"Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal."
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Will Ferrell
"Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal."
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"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
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Milton Berle
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
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"We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution."
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Bill Hicks
"We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution."
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"I was born in very sorry circumstances."
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Norman Wisdom
"I was born in very sorry circumstances."
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"A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers."
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Eddie Cantor
"A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers."
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"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"
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W. C. Fields
"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"
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"The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win."
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Joey Adams
"The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win."
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"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
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George Carlin
"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
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"Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children."
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Phyllis Diller
"Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children."
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"But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that."
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Wanda Sykes
"But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that."
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"No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take."
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Stephen Fry
"No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take."
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"I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it."
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Groucho Marx
"I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it."
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"I hate music, especially when it's played."
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Jimmy Durante
"I hate music, especially when it's played."
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"No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic."
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Jennifer Saunders
"No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic."
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"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
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Stephen Fry
"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
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"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
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Robin Williams
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
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"I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person."
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Andrew Denton
"I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person."
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