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"The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed."
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Jimmy Fallon
"The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed."
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"I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof."
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"It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder."
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John Belushi
"It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder."
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"A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms."
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Rob Schneider
"A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms."
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"We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris."
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Eric Morecambe
"We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris."
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"I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic."
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Mike Myers
"I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic."
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"The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born."
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Elayne Boosler
"The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born."
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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
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Carrie P. Snow
"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
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"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."
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Stephen Fry
"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."
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"I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time."
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Gilbert Gottfried
"I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time."
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"This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest."
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Henny Youngman
"This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest."
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"I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person."
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Michael Palin
"I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person."
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"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."
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"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
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Emo Philips
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
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"I got an early education from television."
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Debra Wilson
"I got an early education from television."
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"It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing."
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Samantha Bee
"It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing."
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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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"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end."
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Jerry Seinfeld
"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end."
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"I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves."
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Ellen DeGeneres
"I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves."
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"I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself."
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Eddie Murphy
"I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself."
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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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"Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you."
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Fred Allen
"Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you."
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"I've been a very lucky actor."
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Bob Newhart
"I've been a very lucky actor."
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"Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants."
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Kevin James
"Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants."
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"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."
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Margaret Cho
"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."
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"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"
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Steven Wright
"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"
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"The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are."
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Kathy Griffin
"The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are."
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"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."
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Howie Mandel
"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."
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"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money."
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W. C. Fields
"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money."
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"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
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Dave Foley
"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
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"Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so."
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Rob Schneider
"Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so."
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"I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking."
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Joe Rogan
"I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking."
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"I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem."
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Chevy Chase
"I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem."
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"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
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Rita Rudner
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
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"I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men."
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Kathy Griffin
"I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men."
Men,
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"Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die."
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Johnny Carson
"Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die."
Men,
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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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"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children."
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Bill Cosby
"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children."
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"And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike."
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Wanda Sykes
"And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike."
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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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"I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle."
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Mitch Hedberg
"I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle."
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"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing."
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Josh Billings
"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing."
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"It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing."
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Russell Brand
"It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing."
Gay,
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"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."
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Robert Benchley
"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."
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"I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit."
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Louie Anderson
"I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit."
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"I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming."
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Kathy Griffin
"I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming."
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"You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it."
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Bob Hope
"You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it."
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"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal."
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Bill Cosby
"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal."
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"I'm Kevin Nealon, and that's news to me."
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Kevin Nealon
"I'm Kevin Nealon, and that's news to me."
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"You see much more of your children once they leave home."
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Lucille Ball
"You see much more of your children once they leave home."
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