Jokes Quotes - Page 13

• I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.

  Sayed Kashua

  Thinking, Laughing, Together

  "'It's A Surviving Tool': 'Native' Tells Satirical Stories Of Life In Israel". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. February 12, 2016.

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• The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no joke. My solo singing is not that hard. But the stuff I have as part of the choir or as a "Dead Guest" in the second-half... I'm singing some really incredible chorus stuff that I haven't done in a long time. It's extremely difficult.

  Max von Essen

  Long, Singing, Done

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• My role is almost a sight-gag. I have to be a woman to sing the lyrics "I am a man" to have it be a joke. I start the lyric in a male-register and a whole coloratura up into a soprano. And other points in the show... like the guy who likes to be treated like a baby and wear a diaper!

  Max von Essen

  Baby, Men, Sight

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Compassion, Understanding, Black

  "Just a Little Crush". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 7, 2016.

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• I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, "Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!"

  Bear McCreary

  Thinking, People, Musical

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

  Cass McCombs

  Persons, Punchlines

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All jokes aside, it's a very difficult job playing the straight man. Jason is potentially the most brilliant straight man that ever was because he's also really funny while doing it, which is even harder. I've always seen myself playing characters who are flawed. We use comedy in our lives to obscure the drama.

  Will Arnett

  Jobs, Drama, Character

  "Will Arnett Is Ready To Confront His Own Demons". Interview with Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes and tropes again, in this way, right now? I wonder what it will turn out to reveal about the economics and politics of this moment.)

  Laura Mullen

  Stars, War, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think you can be politically incorrect, but there's some responsibility with that. You've got to make sure that you are not condoning or bolstering any racial or other stereotypes. You've got to be free to make jokes, but just make sure...you don't want to go and black face somewhere to just prove a point. If it's insulting and offensive just for the sake of it that's problematic.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Responsibility, Thinking, Insulting

  Source: screenrant.com

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• There's a joke in the movie...it's got a fairytale ending, and this is a spoiler: Donald Trump does contract HIV. I think people are upset about that, mainly because they feel the reputation of AIDS has been destroyed by associating it with Donald Trump.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Source: screenrant.com

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• What sort of difficulties would happen when people of different cultures try to come together to worship? Tiny little things such as let's tell jokes with each other.

  Michael Emerson

  People, Trying, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell other white Americans, they'll laugh. If I tell an African American, they might not laugh. In fact, they either might not find it funny, or they might find it offensive, and I didn't mean it to be offensive. So these are the sort of little things that build up over time, just like in a marriage. You know, the little things can build up over time.

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, White, Laughing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There have been so many jokes, about sex and relationships on the "Brady Bunch" set. For some reason, tabloids picked up on this Eve thing. I was on a late-night show and I said, "Oh, yeah, I've kissed her."

  Maureen McCormick

  Sex, Night, Tabloids

  "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY interview, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.

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• I had done an interview with 'Hello' magazine. In it, they asked me if I was going to marry Emily Blunt. Of course, what was I going to say? I said, 'Oh yeah I am going to marry her and I love her and all of this stuff.' It's true. I was making a joke. They said to me, 'Have you asked her?' I said, 'Have I? Maybe I am asking her through the magazine.'

  Michael Buble

  Asking, Done, Magazines

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

  Matt Tong

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.

  Zach Condon

  America, World, Music Is

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

  Casey Spooner

  Believe, Guitar, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.

  Casey Spooner

  Thinking, People, Disposable

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I used to tell myself when I was much younger that I didn't want to wake up one day and be 32 years old and still playing records. It's just not going to happen. Well, the joke is on me, because I'm 56 years old now.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Years, One Day, Wake Up

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I love working on the fly when the writers come up with new jokes on show nights. It's exciting. I love it so much.

  Allison Janney

  Night, Come Up, Exciting

  "Allison Janney Talks 'Mom,' 'Sex' & 'The Jackal'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 30, 2013.

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• I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Sarcastic, Struggle, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity that exists in the world between those people who do and those that don't. I can't say we walk about our guilt a lot, though. If we do, it probably comes out in the form of self-loathing jokes. But it's a tough thing to wrap your head around... the have's and have not's in the world.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Good Life, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

  Paul Reubens

  Facts, Flats, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.

  T. J. Miller

  Thinking, Yogi Bear, Interviews

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.

  Sarah Silverman

  Needs, Littles, Sometimes

  Source: www.wbur.org

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