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Quotes by Comedian

"My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends."
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Joe Rogan
"My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends."
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"I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread."
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Bill Cosby
"I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread."
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"I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now."
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Dave Foley
"I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now."
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"I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."
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Elayne Boosler
"I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body."
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"It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about."
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Bruce Vilanch
"It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about."
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"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
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Josh Billings
"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
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"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video."
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Dan Aykroyd
"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video."
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"My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?"
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Andy Kaufman
"My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?"
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"America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent."
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Bill Maher
"America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent."
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"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."
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Bill Maher
"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."
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"Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future."
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Michael Palin
"Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future."
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"We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home."
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Bill Maher
"We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home."
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
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Josh Billings
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
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Rita Rudner
"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
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"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian."
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Shelley Berman
"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian."
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"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."
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Simon Pegg
"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."
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"Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable."
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Bill Maher
"Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable."
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"That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie."
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Bill Maher
"That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie."
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"I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking."
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Michael Palin
"I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking."
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"I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like, 'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you."
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Craig Ferguson
"I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like, 'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you."
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"It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass."
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"One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it."
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Jack Dee
"One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it."
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"If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!"
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Red Buttons
"If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!"
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"The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree."
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Craig Ferguson
"The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree."
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"Why are there five syllables in the word 'monosyllabic?"
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Steven Wright
"Why are there five syllables in the word 'monosyllabic?"
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"College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage."
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George Gobel
"College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage."
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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
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P. J. O'Rourke
"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
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"A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss."
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Tina Fey
"A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss."
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"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
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Ben Elton
"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
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"Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household."
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Paul Lynde
"Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household."
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"It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes."
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Wanda Sykes
"It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes."
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"If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny."
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Dane Cook
"If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny."
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"But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes."
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Paul Reiser
"But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes."
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"The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't."
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Rosie O'Donnell
"The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't."
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"All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it."
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Fred Allen
"All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it."
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"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."
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Orlando Jones
"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."
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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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"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."
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Bill Cosby
"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."
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"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
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Steve Martin
"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
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"Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him."
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Rich Little
"Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him."
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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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"And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor."
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Damon Wayans
"And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor."
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"My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic."
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Pauly Shore
"My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic."
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"I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out."
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Larry Miller
"I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out."
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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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"You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts."
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Chevy Chase
"You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts."
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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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"People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count."
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Ben Elton
"People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count."
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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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