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"Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal."
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Josh Billings
"Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal."
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"I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you."
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Mark McKinney
"I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you."
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"I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that."
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Todd Barry
"I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that."
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"I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself."
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Dane Cook
"I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself."
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"I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way."
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Joe Rogan
"I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way."
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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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"You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."
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W. C. Fields
"You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."
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"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
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James Thurber
"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
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"I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church."
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Paul Lynde
"I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church."
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"Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids."
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Dick Smothers
"Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids."
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"If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer."
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Lewis Black
"If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer."
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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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"When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in."
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Bob Hope
"When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in."
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"In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?"
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Amy Poehler
"In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?"
Day,
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"A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student."
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Henny Youngman
"A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student."
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"The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin."
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Jay Leno
"The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin."
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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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"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
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Lucille Ball
"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
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"Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."
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Jackie Mason
"Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."
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"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest.""
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Bill Cosby
"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest.""
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"I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work."
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Todd Barry
"I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work."
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"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on."
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Bill Cosby
"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on."
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"If you got a name like Barack Obama, you're supposed to fight."
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Sinbad
"If you got a name like Barack Obama, you're supposed to fight."
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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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"It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there."
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Sam Kinison
"It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there."
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"With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke."
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Tim Vine
"With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke."
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"Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped."
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Paul Rodriguez
"Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped."
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"The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."
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Robert Benchley
"The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."
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"I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction."
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Ben Stiller
"I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction."
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"I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas."
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Louie Anderson
"I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas."
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"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor."
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Joan Rivers
"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor."
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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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"I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place."
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Wanda Sykes
"I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place."
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"I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom."
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Wanda Sykes
"I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom."
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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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"I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy."
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Dennis Miller
"I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy."
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"It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up."
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Jo Brand
"It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up."
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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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Johnny Vegas
"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."
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Norman Wisdom
"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."
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"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."
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"One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably."
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Jo Brand
"One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably."
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"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."
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Dave Foley
"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."
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"I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty."
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Bob Hope
"I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty."
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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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"If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow."
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Eddie Murphy
"If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow."
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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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"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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"You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family."
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Louie Anderson
"You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family."
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"I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved."
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Carrot Top
"I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved."
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