Jokes Quotes - Page 18

• Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.

  Timothy L. O'Brien

  Long, Excess, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had a show that people thought used a laugh track. It wasn't; it was the real audience going crazy after everything that resembled a joke, that they could technically call a joke.

  Norm MacDonald

  Crazy, Real, Laughing

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

  Norm MacDonald

  Cutting, Weekend, Updates

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

  Norm MacDonald

  Perfect, Different, Kind

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Grateful, Skills, Genius

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• I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, People, Giving

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• As you can tell from watching the show, I'm not a strong joke writer per se.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Strong, Shows

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.

  Werner Herzog

  Stupid, Volcanoes, Film

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I'll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I'm going to work hard.

  Dwight Howard

  Hard Work, Going To Work, Gym

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I never used to be as good, you get better. I've just gotten better and quicker at figuring out the joke.

  Gerry Dee

  Get Better, Used, Used To Be

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• There were plenty of times some writers would make some kind of stupid joke to each other and then it was on TV that night or that week.

  Jon Glaser

  Stupid, Night, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that a career was feasible - being able to travel.

  Cakes da killa

  Fun, College, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.

  Richard Pryor

  White, People, Calling

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I was talking about the art from...if you look at the art from George Clinton albums there are two or three artists he worked with...I made her listen to my album too so all the images are from jokes I made. I wanted it to look like the thoughts that are coming out of my brain which is what comedy is anyway.

  Baron Vaughn

  Art, Talking, Two

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

  Baron Vaughn

  I Like You, Moving, Writing

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The running joke on set [of the Westworlds] was that everyone at some point thinks that they're Anthony Hopkins. Like, "Guys, I think I'm Dr. Ford. I'm Anthony Hopkins. That's the twist." We love all of the theories. Part of the fun of that show is figuring it out.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Running, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Lisa Joy is so incredible, and she's always on set making sure everyone is okay and being respectful. We have a zero-tolerance policy on that set [ in the Westworlds]. If anyone is inappropriate or makes you uncomfortable, they're literally gone in two seconds. It's no joke. It's very professional.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Zero, Two, Joy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

  Jonathan Chait

  Tragedy, American History, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, 'Look, [Kanye West] called me and told me the line before it came out. Like, joke's on you guys, we're fine'.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over half a million guests... our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies... and Barack [Obama] has treated the American people to countless dad jokes.

  Michelle Obama

  Dad, Holiday, Past

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

  Eric McCormack

  Couple, Laughing, Decent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can make jokes but [ George Clooney] is everything that anyone's ever said about him.

  John Krasinski

  Said

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• R2-D2 is like that, but I think because he doesn't speak actual words, his jokes don't land. It's really a hindrance. And the same with BB-8. But Artoo is a lot stronger.

  Alan Tudyk

  Thinking, Land, Stronger

  "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

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• I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Knowing, Beginners, Scarves

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I like to respond with jokes and to keep it as light as possible.

  Margaret Cho

  Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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