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"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
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George Carlin
"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
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"Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday."
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Wayne Brady
"Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday."
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"Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations."
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Red Skelton
"Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations."
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"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."
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"It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life."
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Samantha Bee
"It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life."
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"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile."
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Jim Carrey
"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile."
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"In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job."
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Rowan Atkinson
"In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job."
Job,
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"I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there."
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Steven Wright
"I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there."
End,
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"Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown."
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Fanny Brice
"Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown."
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"Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience."
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Victoria Jackson
"Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience."
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"I'll die young, but it's like kissing God."
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Lenny Bruce
"I'll die young, but it's like kissing God."
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"When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me."
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Carrot Top
"When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me."
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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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"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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"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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"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."
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"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."
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W. C. Fields
"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."
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"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die."
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Bill Cosby
"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die."
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"Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex."
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Bill Maher
"Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex."
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"I hate all sidekicks."
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Patton Oswalt
"I hate all sidekicks."
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"I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking," but I don't have that much time."
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Steven Wright
"I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking," but I don't have that much time."
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"Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles."
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Red Skelton
"Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles."
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"The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready."
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Steve Martin
"The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready."
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"I owe everything to the army."
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Norman Wisdom
"I owe everything to the army."
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"Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling."
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"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
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James Thurber
"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
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"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
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James Thurber
"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
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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 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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"When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?"
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Robin Williams
"When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?"
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"Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question."
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Arthur Guiterman
"Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question."
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"The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like."
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Mike Myers
"The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like."
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"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."
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Rory Bremner
"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."
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"It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?"
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David Letterman
"It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?"
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"My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family."
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"I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much."
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"I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much."
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"It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in."
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Joe Rogan
"It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in."
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"What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully."
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Jo Brand
"What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully."
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"Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much."
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Joe Rogan
"Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much."
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"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
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Bill Cosby
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
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"I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them."
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Rita Rudner
"I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them."
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"We became Morris and Morecambe. This partnership did not last long, however."
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Ernie Wise
"We became Morris and Morecambe. This partnership did not last long, however."
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"If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice."
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Jimmy Fallon
"If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice."
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"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life."
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Mitch Hedberg
"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life."
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"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does."
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Groucho Marx
"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does."
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"At my age flowers scare me."
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George Burns
"At my age flowers scare me."
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"I want to manufacture a feud."
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Rob Corddry
"I want to manufacture a feud."
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"Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
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Josh Billings
"Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
Man,
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"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."
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James Thurber
"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."
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"The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts."
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David Letterman
"The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts."
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