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"My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless."
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"Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch."
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Dennis Miller
"Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch."
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"I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV."
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Ana Gasteyer
"I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV."
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"The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains."
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"First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for "The Passion of the Christ"? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff."
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Rob Schneider
"First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for "The Passion of the Christ"? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff."
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"I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way."
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Ben Stiller
"I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way."
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"They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase."
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Chevy Chase
"They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase."
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"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach."
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Margaret Cho
"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach."
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"I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world."
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Rachel Dratch
"I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world."
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"But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone."
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"But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone."
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"So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him."
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Mike Myers
"So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him."
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"People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius."
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Jerry Lewis
"People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius."
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"My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh."
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Carrot Top
"My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh."
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"That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me."
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Jerry Seinfeld
"That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me."
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"I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson."
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Emo Philips
"I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson."
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"Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again."
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Margaret Cho
"Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again."
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"My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself."
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Henny Youngman
"My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself."
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"The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks."
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Emo Philips
"The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks."
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"Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken."
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Joe Rogan
"Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken."
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"The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life."
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Al Franken
"The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life."
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"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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Lenny Bruce
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
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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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"There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them."
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Robert Benchley
"There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them."
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"What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text."
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"It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it."
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Don Adams
"It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it."
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"You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made."
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Simon Pegg
"You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made."
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"I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people."
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Jo Brand
"I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people."
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"I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds."
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Dave Chappelle
"I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds."
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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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"We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure."
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Sinbad
"We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure."
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"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."
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Rita Rudner
"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."
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"We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well."
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Scott Thompson
"We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well."
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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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"When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary."
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Red Buttons
"When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary."
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"I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there."
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Bob Hope
"I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there."
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"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."
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Sinbad
"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."
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"I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did."
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Jeff Foxworthy
"I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did."
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"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."
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"Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate."
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Margaret Cho
"Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate."
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"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself."
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Johnny Carson
"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself."
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"It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in."
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Tracey Ullman
"It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in."
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"I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form."
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Patton Oswalt
"I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form."
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"Money is sensual."
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Jerry Stiller
"Money is sensual."
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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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"My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted."
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Steven Wright
"My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted."
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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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"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."
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Rita Rudner
"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."
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"No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there."
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Kathy Griffin
"No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there."
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"He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be."
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Colin Quinn
"He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be."
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"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."
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Fred Allen
"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."
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