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"90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on."
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Patton Oswalt
"90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on."
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"Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't."
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Ruby Wax
"Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't."
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"I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes."
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David Steinberg
"I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes."
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"The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money."
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Johnny Carson
"The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money."
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"I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people."
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Louie Anderson
"I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people."
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"Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!"
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Chris Rock
"Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!"
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"Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out."
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Joe Rogan
"Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out."
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"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."
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Bill Cosby
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."
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"The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh."
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Joe Rogan
"The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh."
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"I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up."
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Johnny Vegas
"I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up."
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"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?""
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Steven Wright
"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?""
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"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."
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Bill Maher
"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."
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"They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh."
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Mike Epps
"They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh."
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"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."
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Lewis Black
"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."
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"People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it."
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Joe Rogan
"People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it."
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"We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up."
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Simon Pegg
"We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up."
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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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"And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy."
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Robert Klein
"And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy."
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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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"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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"It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky."
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Mitch Hedberg
"It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky."
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"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."
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Ben Elton
"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."
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"And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?"
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Mark McKinney
"And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?"
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"I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it."
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Mitch Hedberg
"I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it."
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"Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?"
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Orlando Jones
"Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?"
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"The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about."
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Damon Wayans
"The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about."
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"Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself."
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Todd Barry
"Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself."
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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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"Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people."
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Michael Palin
"Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people."
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"The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart."
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W. C. Fields
"The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart."
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"Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal."
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Wanda Sykes
"Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal."
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"My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame."
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Joel McHale
"My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame."
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"We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel."
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Yakov Smirnoff
"We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel."
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"I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars."
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Chevy Chase
"I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars."
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"I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style."
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Kathy Griffin
"I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style."
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"You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it."
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George Carlin
"You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it."
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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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"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."
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James Thurber
"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."
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"My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act."
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Todd Barry
"My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act."
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"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."
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Jonathan Winters
"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."
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"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."
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Steven Wright
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."
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"I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh."
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Dane Cook
"I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh."
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"Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted."
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Bob Monkhouse
"Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted."
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"I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all."
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Todd Barry
"I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all."
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"We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science."
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Al Franken
"We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science."
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"In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander."
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Harpo Marx
"In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander."
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"You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask."
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Samantha Bee
"You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask."
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"My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business."
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Paul Lynde
"My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business."
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"If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it."
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Johnny Vegas
"If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it."
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"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."
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Dick Gregory
"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."
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