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"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."
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Joe E. Lewis
"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."
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"To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus."
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Al Franken
"To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus."
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"My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love."
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Yakov Smirnoff
"My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love."
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"An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match."
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Fred Allen
"An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match."
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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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"The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed."
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Fred Allen
"The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed."
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"Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you."
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Wendy Liebman
"Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you."
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"I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping."
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Red Buttons
"I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping."
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"Christ, seven years of college, down the drain."
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John Belushi
"Christ, seven years of college, down the drain."
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"When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean."
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Rowan Atkinson
"When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean."
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"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness."
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Stephen Fry
"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness."
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"Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin."
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Tim Vine
"Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin."
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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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"She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right."
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Mike Epps
"She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right."
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"I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself."
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Tony Hancock
"I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself."
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"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it."
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Bill Cosby
"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it."
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"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."
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George Burns
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."
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"I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens."
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Rip Taylor
"I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens."
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"Hermits have no peer pressure."
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Steven Wright
"Hermits have no peer pressure."
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"I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear."
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Randy Newman
"I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear."
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"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."
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Steven Wright
"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."
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"I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining."
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Groucho Marx
"I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining."
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"Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness."
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James Thurber
"Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness."
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"Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots."
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Rob Schneider
"Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots."
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"That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'"
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Jim Carrey
"That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'"
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"We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts."
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Yakov Smirnoff
"We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts."
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"It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart."
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Yakov Smirnoff
"It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart."
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"Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want."
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Sinbad
"Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want."
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"Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid."
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Mike Epps
"Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid."
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"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."
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Josh Billings
"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."
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"The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board."
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Dennis Miller
"The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board."
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"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"
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Jeff Foxworthy
"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"
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"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
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Shelley Berman
"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
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"Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?"
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Bill Maher
"Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?"
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"Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it."
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"MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic."
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Eddie Izzard
"MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic."
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"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
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Kevin McDonald
"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
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"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."
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Pat Paulsen
"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."
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"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."
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Josh Billings
"The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."
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"Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one."
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Harpo Marx
"Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one."
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"Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?"
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David Letterman
"Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?"
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"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day."
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Johnny Carson
"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day."
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"There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming."
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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming."
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"I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards."
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Rob Corddry
"I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards."
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"You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand."
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"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her."
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Jim Carrey
"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her."
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
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Yakov Smirnoff
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
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"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
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James Thurber
"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
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"I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet."
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Ruby Wax
"I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet."
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"My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook."
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Carrot Top
"My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook."
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