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"If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression."
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Jim Carrey
"If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression."
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"There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God."
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Bill Cosby
"There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God."
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"I just want to do cool stuff."
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Rob Corddry
"I just want to do cool stuff."
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"Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime."
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Red Skelton
"Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime."
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"I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors."
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Samantha Bee
"I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors."
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"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."
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Billy Connolly
"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."
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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 hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people."
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Wanda Sykes
"It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people."
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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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"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 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 made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully."
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Jo Brand
"I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully."
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"I have lots of energy."
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Julia Sweeney
"I have lots of energy."
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"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."
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Jerry Seinfeld
"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."
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"A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home."
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"While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world."
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Andy Kaufman
"While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world."
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"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"
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Joan Rivers
"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"
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"Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying."
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Steven Wright
"Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying."
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"The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently."
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Margaret Smith
"The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently."
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"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
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Spike Milligan
"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
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"I hate music, especially when it's played."
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Jimmy Durante
"I hate music, especially when it's played."
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"Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?"
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Tracey Ullman
"Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?"
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"I've had great success being a total idiot."
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Jerry Lewis
"I've had great success being a total idiot."
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"I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty."
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Eddie Murphy
"I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty."
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"And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school."
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Sarah Silverman
"And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school."
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"Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies."
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Ben Stiller
"Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies."
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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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"If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business."
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Joey Adams
"If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business."
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"The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good."
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Al Franken
"The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good."
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"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
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Josh Billings
"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
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"I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left."
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Julian Clary
"I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left."
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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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"We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together."
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Jerry Stiller
"We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together."
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"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."
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Mike Myers
"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."
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"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"
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Rita Rudner
"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"
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"Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly."
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Rip Taylor
"Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly."
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"Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television."
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Joan Rivers
"Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television."
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"To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy."
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Elayne Boosler
"To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy."
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"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it."
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Randy Newman
"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it."
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"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."
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Joey Adams
"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."
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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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"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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"There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful."
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Chevy Chase
"There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful."
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"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
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Jerry Seinfeld
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
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"The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends."
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Kathy Griffin
"The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends."
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"My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this."
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"If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream."
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Bill Maher
"If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream."
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"The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery."
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Robin Williams
"The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery."
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"So many comics have such low self-esteem."
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Debra Wilson
"So many comics have such low self-esteem."
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