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"Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know"
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Craig Ferguson
"Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know"
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"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
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Bill Cosby
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
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"I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job."
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Ruby Wax
"I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job."
Job,
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"Wrong is for other people."
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Fanny Brice
"Wrong is for other people."
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"The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining."
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Kevin Nealon
"The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining."
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"Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics."
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Paul Lynde
"Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics."
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"If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show."
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Samantha Bee
"If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show."
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"As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last."
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Tracey Ullman
"As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last."
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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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"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
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Steve Martin
"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
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"I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days."
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Dana Carvey
"I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days."
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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 am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one."
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Lucille Ball
"I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one."
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"They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them."
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Paul Reiser
"They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them."
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"I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists."
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Mike Epps
"I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists."
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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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"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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"I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed."
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Louie Anderson
"I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed."
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"I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, "What for?" I said, "I'm going to buy some sugar.""
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Steven Wright
"I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, "What for?" I said, "I'm going to buy some sugar.""
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"Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be."
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Joan Rivers
"Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be."
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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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"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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"So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!"
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Eddie Izzard
"So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!"
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"Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood."
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Pauly Shore
"Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood."
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"Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish."
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Carrie P. Snow
"Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish."
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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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"Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it."
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Wanda Sykes
"Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it."
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"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."
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Rita Rudner
"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."
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"A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada."
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Samantha Bee
"A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada."
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"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."
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Todd Barry
"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."
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"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
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Bill Cosby
"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
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"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet."
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Bill Cosby
"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet."
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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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"I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced."
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Ruby Wax
"I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced."
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"With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying."
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Craig Ferguson
"With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying."
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"If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat."
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Lewis Black
"If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat."
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"Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in."
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Tina Fey
"Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in."
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"I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me."
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Wanda Sykes
"I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me."
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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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"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."
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A. Whitney Brown
"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."
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"Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit."
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Bill Cosby
"Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit."
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"Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title."
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Joe Rogan
"Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title."
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"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."
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Robert Benchley
"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."
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"The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states."
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Tracey Ullman
"The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states."
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"When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter."
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Yakov Smirnoff
"When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter."
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"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."
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Pat Paulsen
"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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Chris Farley
"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day."
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Johnny Vegas
"They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day."
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