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"New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved."
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Johnny Carson
"New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved."
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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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"I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ."
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Kate Clinton
"I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ."
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"Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway."
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Mark McKinney
"Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway."
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"Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in."
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Rita Rudner
"Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in."
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"The bottom line of Hollywood is money."
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Victoria Jackson
"The bottom line of Hollywood is money."
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"If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all."
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"When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him."
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Josh Billings
"When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him."
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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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"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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"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
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Groucho Marx
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
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"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."
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Robin Williams
"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."
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"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."
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James Thurber
"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."
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"If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck."
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"Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse."
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Paul Lynde
"Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse."
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"Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name."
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Milton Berle
"Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name."
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"What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'"
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Evan Sayet
"What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'"
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"I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do."
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Patton Oswalt
"I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do."
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"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
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Josh Billings
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
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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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"Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about."
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Rachel Dratch
"Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about."
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"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine."
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Spike Milligan
"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine."
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"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing."
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Bill Cosby
"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing."
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"I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all."
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Rowan Atkinson
"I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all."
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"Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period."
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Patton Oswalt
"Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period."
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"When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic."
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Jane Wagner
"When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic."
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"What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do."
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"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."
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"It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it."
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Bob Newhart
"It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it."
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"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
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"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."
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David Letterman
"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."
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"I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations."
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Stephen Fry
"I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations."
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"My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."
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Emo Philips
"My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."
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"However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma."
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Julian Clary
"However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma."
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"I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were."
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Dan Aykroyd
"I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were."
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"It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV."
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Flip Wilson
"It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV."
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"My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand."
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Damon Wayans
"My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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Robert Benchley
"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life."
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W. C. Fields
"Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life."
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"But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it."
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Mike Epps
"But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it."
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"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
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Fred Allen
"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
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"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."
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James Thurber
"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."
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"The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck."
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Simon Pegg
"The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck."
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"A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid."
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Kate Clinton
"A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid."
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"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"
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James Thurber
"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"
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"I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice."
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Craig Ferguson
"I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice."
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"After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride."
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Jay London
"After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride."
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"The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching."
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Chevy Chase
"The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching."
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"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."
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Josh Billings
"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."
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"I get paid for what most kids get punished for."
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Jerry Lewis
"I get paid for what most kids get punished for."
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