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Quotes by Comedian

"Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?"
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Emo Philips
"Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?"
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"Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there."
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Andy Richter
"Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there."
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"With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get."
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Jo Brand
"With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get."
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"My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me."
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Phyllis Diller
"My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me."
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"I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages."
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Damon Wayans
"I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages."
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"Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses."
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Kevin Nealon
"Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses."
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"I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing."
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Sarah Silverman
"I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing."
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"Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid."
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Rita Rudner
"Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid."
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"I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people."
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Ruby Wax
"I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people."
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"Old is always fifteen years from now."
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Bill Cosby
"Old is always fifteen years from now."
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"The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found."
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Joan Rivers
"The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found."
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"If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled."
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Red Skelton
"If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled."
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"Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband)."
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James Thurber
"Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband)."
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"I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies."
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Chevy Chase
"I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies."
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"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."
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"I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else."
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Rowan Atkinson
"I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else."
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"Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on theroad an hour."
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Steven Wright
"Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on theroad an hour."
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"When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room."
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Andy Kaufman
"When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room."
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"It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it."
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Dick Smothers
"It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it."
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"Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people."
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Graham Chapman
"Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people."
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"In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time."
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Tim Meadows
"In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time."
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"New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi."
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Bill Maher
"New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi."
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"I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope."
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Jerry Lewis
"I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope."
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"My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul."
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Tim Vine
"My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul."
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"I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage."
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Patton Oswalt
"I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage."
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"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."
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Dick Gregory
"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."
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"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."
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Robert Benchley
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."
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"Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me."
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Ruby Wax
"Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me."
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"Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's."
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Jerry Stiller
"Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's."
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"Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks."
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Al Franken
"Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks."
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"When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be."
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Jimmy Fallon
"When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be."
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"The head writer loves that my character is a boor."
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Rob Corddry
"The head writer loves that my character is a boor."
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"It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road."
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Rory Bremner
"It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road."
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"I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day."
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Paul Lynde
"I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day."
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"Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen."
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Steven Wright
"Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen."
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"The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house."
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"Black beauty - he's a dark horse."
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Tim Vine
"Black beauty - he's a dark horse."
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"I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator."
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Emo Philips
"I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator."
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"They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle."
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Sarah Silverman
"They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle."
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"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe."
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Jimmy Durante
"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe."
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"Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works."
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Lea DeLaria
"Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works."
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"After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird."
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Joe Rogan
"After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird."
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"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."
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Alan King
"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."
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"I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly."
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Kathy Griffin
"I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly."
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"In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing."
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Yakov Smirnoff
"In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing."
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"I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano."
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Norman Wisdom
"I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano."
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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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"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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"I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching."
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Jennifer Saunders
"I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching."
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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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