Jokes Quotes - Page 16

• If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.

  Val Kilmer

  Writing, Play, Challenges

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• Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

  Seth Rogen

  Everyday Objects, Secret, Stories

  Source: munchies.vice.com

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• My grandfather used to say 'Eat the biggest crabs first, that way you're always eating the biggest crabs.' In making a TV show, that means if you have a big funny or smart idea for an episode or a scene or a joke, go for it. Don't save it for another season or another episode, because you may not have the right time again. It's good advice for television, but truly stellar advice for eating crabs.

  Jonathan Groff

  Smart, Mean, Tv Shows

  Source: variety.com

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• At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.

  Russell Simmons

  Moments, Disappear, Shock

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• My daddy. He's so funny! My whole family jokes around a lot.

  Coco Jones

  Daddy, Whole Family, Whole

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny joke for real? Or am I just rich?" See? That was funny.

  Kanye West

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I like trying jokes and seeing the response, and if I end up doing it in my act, it won't be 140 characters. Twitter is helpful that way to me. It's like a message in a bottle. But a lot of times I think I tweet the stuff I would like to say to teenage me.

  Sarah Silverman

  Teenage, Character, Thinking

  "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

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• I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."

  Judd Apatow

  Intelligent, Thinking, Hbo

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Ideas, Risk

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• It was always the most fun thing in the world to think of a joke area and talk about it with someone like Jim Carrey, and then he would get on stage fearlessly and tear the house down. That's something I always enjoyed. It also allowed me to not be terrified.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, Thinking, House

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct it and act in it, she was the creative force behind everything, from the jokes down to the expressions.

  Keri Russell

  Writing, Expression, Creative

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed - and, again, whether you think it's funny or not, that's subjective.

  David Cross

  Thinking, Hopefully, Stills

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• George Lowe was the one who opened the mail, and George started laughing uproariously and I looked up at him in astonishment and said, "What's so funny?" And he said, "You've been given a title", and I said, "Ha, ha, big joke." I didn't believe him but, sure enough, in this letter it indicated that the Queen had given me a title.

  Edmund Hillary

  Queens, Believe, Laughing

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.

  Nick Cannon

  Art, Rap, Cat

  "Nick Cannon Gives Us An Exclusive Look Into The Making Of The New ‘wild ‘n Out’ Mixtape". Interview with Miz Kane, thesource.com. August 2, 2016.

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• I remember after I dated this white man, nobody said anything but there was a couple of men in my family that joked after that. 'Oh yeah, we had a party when y'all broke up. Hee hee hee.' And, you know, they laughed, and it was like light and a joke. But, you know, that's real. That was real and they let me know. And, it's almost acceptable within our culture to be prejudiced toward whites because of our history. This country is loaded with racism .

  Sanaa Lathan

  Country, Couple, Real

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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• The worst was I had little control in terms of smoothing out my questions and making myself look good the way I could in print. All the ums and uhs and rambling and apologies and hyenalike laughter at something that really isn't funny. You know when an artist will crack a joke, and you're like, "That's so hilarious," like, the fawning laughter that you can at least cut when it's print? It's just all out there, and it's really humiliating.

  Jancee Dunn

  Laughter, Cutting, Apology

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

  John Krasinski

  Emotional, Long, Laughing

  "How John Krasinski's Own Family Stories Made His New Film More Personal For Him". Interview with Shannon Vestal Robson, www.popsugar.com. August 28, 2016.

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• You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke. It has to be funny, so usually all the things in the background don't matter.

  Fede Alvarez

  What Matters, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

  Fede Alvarez

  Matter, Cameras, Fancy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very slowly for pretty good money. So the idea of writing really quickly for free offends me.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Writing, Years

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

  Eric Andre

  Thinking, Taste, Ifs

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

  Eric Andre

  Behinds, Ifs

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• The movie studios, they only like to make - I make a joke, but it's true - if the movie has the word "man" and a number in the title, they'll make it. If it doesn't have that, it's an R-rated raunchy comedy, and that's it. Any other movie that you're going to make is going to be an independent one. So for filmmakers who want to do something other than "man" and a number, it's either independent films or television, which is like the place for real creative filmmakers to go.

  Rob Reiner

  Real, Independent, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Art, Children, Bird

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

  Garry Winogrand

  Mean, Earning, Term

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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