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"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius."
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Amy Poehler
"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius."
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"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"
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Phyllis Diller
"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"
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"It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation."
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Julian Clary
"It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation."
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"To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me."
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Joe Rogan
"To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me."
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"I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out."
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Steven Wright
"I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out."
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"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement."
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Fred Allen
"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement."
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"But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever."
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Ron White
"But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever."
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"Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors."
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Jay Leno
"Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors."
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"That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand."
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Stephen Fry
"That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand."
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"I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days."
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Billy Connolly
"I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days."
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"It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now."
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Patton Oswalt
"It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now."
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"It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them."
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Tracey Ullman
"It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them."
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"In order to be a top-tier candidate, I need 7.5 million dollars, and I currently have 0.0 million dollars."
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Stephen Colbert
"In order to be a top-tier candidate, I need 7.5 million dollars, and I currently have 0.0 million dollars."
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"If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?"
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Howie Mandel
"If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?"
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"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time."
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Jim Carrey
"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time."
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"This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution."
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Bill Maher
"This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution."
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"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
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George Burns
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
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"My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere."
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Jim Carrey
"My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere."
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"Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler."
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W. C. Fields
"Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler."
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"I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed."
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Bill Maher
"I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed."
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"I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family."
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"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
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Shelley Berman
"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
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"Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation."
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George Carlin
"Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation."
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"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."
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George Carlin
"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."
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"There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty."
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Joe E. Lewis
"There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty."
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"My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy."
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Joan Rivers
"My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy."
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"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
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Groucho Marx
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
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"We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone."
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Bill Dana
"We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone."
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"I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks."
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Al Franken
"I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks."
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"For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!"
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Jay Leno
"For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!"
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"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
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Steven Wright
"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
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"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
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Ring Lardner
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
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"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
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"I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together."
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"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."
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W. C. Fields
"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty."
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"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."
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Mel Brooks
"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."
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"A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."
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Bob Hope
"A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."
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"I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show."
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Samantha Bee
"I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show."
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"You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready."
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Henny Youngman
"You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready."
Wit,
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"I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen."
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Norman Wisdom
"I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen."
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"The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most."
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Jay Leno
"The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most."
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"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do."
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Ring Lardner
"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do."
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"According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it."
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Jay Leno
"According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it."
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"I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there."
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Stephen Fry
"I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there."
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"Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close."
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Jennifer Saunders
"Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close."
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"I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show."
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Paul O'Grady
"I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show."
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"Zoolander was more of my own sensibility."
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Ben Stiller
"Zoolander was more of my own sensibility."
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"If men have a smell it's usually an accident."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"If men have a smell it's usually an accident."
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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
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Groucho Marx
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
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"When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'"
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Robin Williams
"When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'"
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