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Quotes by Comedian

"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."
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Joe E. Lewis
"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."
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"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."
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Damon Wayans
"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."
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"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
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Lucille Ball
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
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"When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking."
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Elayne Boosler
"When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking."
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"Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own."
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Eddie Cantor
"Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own."
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"I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is."
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Eric Idle
"I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is."
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"Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent."
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Mark Thomas
"Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent."
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"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."
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Dick Gregory
"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."
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"Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow."
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Ellen DeGeneres
"Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow."
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"I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you."
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Jane Wagner
"I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you."
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"When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it."
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Joe Rogan
"When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it."
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"I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia."
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Johnny Vegas
"I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia."
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"I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see."
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Patton Oswalt
"I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see."
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"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
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Shelley Berman
"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
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"Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do."
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Wanda Sykes
"Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do."
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"Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out."
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Flip Wilson
"Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out."
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"My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often."
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Emo Philips
"My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often."
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"Hermits have no peer pressure."
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Steven Wright
"Hermits have no peer pressure."
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"Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD."
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Joe Rogan
"Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD."
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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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"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words."
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Josh Billings
"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words."
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"We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray."
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Evan Sayet
"We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray."
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"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."
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James Thurber
"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."
Man,
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"You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it."
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Colin Quinn
"You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it."
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"I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead."
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"I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead."
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"I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days."
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Bill Dana
"I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days."
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"The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."
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Jane Wagner
"The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you."
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"I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not."
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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not."
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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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"In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!"
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Joel McHale
"In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!"
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"I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid."
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Rob Corddry
"I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid."
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"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."
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Shelley Berman
"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."
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"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."
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Mitch Hedberg
"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."
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"I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities."
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Ben Stiller
"I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities."
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"Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders."
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Chris Rock
"Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders."
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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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"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."
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Julian Clary
"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."
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"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."
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Dawn French
"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."
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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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"Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present."
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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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"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke."
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Victoria Jackson
"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke."
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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 realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important."
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Craig Ferguson
"I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important."
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"I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show."
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Johnny Vegas
"I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show."
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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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"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."
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Amy Poehler
"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."
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"All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead."
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Will Ferrell
"All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead."
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"I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day."
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Mitch Hedberg
"I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day."
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"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
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Bob Hope
"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
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