Jokes Quotes - Page 21

• There used to be a joke that women need a reason to have sex, while men only need a place. Does policy reflect that juvenile mindset? Such a requirement baffles some women in the real world: a female member of the US Commission on Civil Rights told me, 'I am still trying to wrap my mind around the idea of any two intimates in the world agreeing as to "why.'

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, Real, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In the Senate race I went for some candidate endorsement meetings and three people there asked me: Do you go to a therapist? Because they could not believe that with the beating I took in the mayor's race I could still come in there cracking jokes and talking about the issues!

  Angela Alioto

  Believe, Race, Talking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits. I left home when I was sixteen and lived in places where it was very easy for me to have fallen the other way. I could have been on the large convoy because I was a woman and I was alone. In India, that's not a joke. I could have ended up very, very badly. I'm lucky that I didn't.

  Arundhati Roy

  Home, Artist, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Tragedy, Made, Anathema

  Source: www.procuniarworkshop.com

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• It's important to remember that life is a joke and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

  John Mulaney

  Thinking, Laughing, Perspective

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with TIME, time.com. February 21, 2017.

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• [John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that didn't work or something, he'd fight for the other actors.

  Julie Benz

  Stars, Fighting, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You think that sense of humor goes as far as our ideology. I think that ultimately, we have we have very interesting reactions on our show. People are constantly saying, "I love your-your show is so funny, until you made a joke about global warming, which is a serious issue, and I can't believe you did that. And I am never watching your show again."

  Jon Stewart

  Believe, Love You, Thinking

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.

  Jon Stewart

  Writing, Warrior, Government

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing for arms control measures, détente, and so on. He's very high up, and we were talking about whether arms control could succeed. And only partially as a joke he said, "Well it might succeed if the high tech industry makes more profit from arms control than it can make from weapons-related research and production. If we get to that tipping point maybe arms control will work." He was partially joking but there's a truth that lies behind it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Government, Talking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't think fast enough on my feet in terms of the writing to change the script too much when I'm shooting it. I like to have it set and done and know that I feel good about it and I might add a few lines here and there while we're shooting, if I think of a new joke, I might toss it in, but for the most part, I try to stick to the written script and have all the latitude exist within that.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Writing, Thinking, Feet

  "When the world feels dangerous, films showing the human experience are key, directors say". Interview with Mark Olsen and Yvonne Villarreal, www.latimes.com. January 5, 2017.

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• The only basis for even talking about global warming is the predictions spewed out by computer models. The only quote/unquote "evidence" of global warming is what models are predicting the climate and the weather will be in the next 50 to 100 years. Now, what those models spit out is only as good as the data that's put in, and it's an absolute joke. In terms of science, it's a total joke. There is no warming, global or otherwise!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Years, Data

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Energy, Development, Regimes

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• The Muppets are no joke. They are for real. Each one has an agent and manager and all that stuff. I'm not even kidding.

  Terry Crews

  Real, Agents, Stuff

  Source: uproxx.com

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• All of a sudden I got a call the night of the first time we were filming and they're like, "Terry, we made a mistake. We need you to be you. You're not a joke with these guys and you're not mousy, you're very aggressive. Now it just so happens that you're going through these things, but we need you to be more physical in your role."

  Terry Crews

  Mistake, Night, Guy

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• As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what's going on in Calvin's head.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.annistonstar.com

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• A lot of comics just joke around, but it's just as important to get the truth out there.

  Lisa Lampanelli

  Important

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand how someone deems it necessary if somebody is in power to tear them down - I think that's really crucial. I make a lot of mean jokes about myself; as a theme, suffering seems to me a very interesting thing for comedy, but not the suffering of a particular individual.

  Dylan Moran

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to have that emotional investment in the jokes that you're saying otherwise they actually don't work. You can say exactly the same thing, but if you don't believe it's funny at the time that you're saying it, it won't be.

  John Bishop

  Believe, Emotional, Investment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, a tour show should have a narrative; it should have an arc. It shouldn't just be, "Here's one joke, here's another joke." That's not my style. They all have to somehow link together.

  John Bishop

  Should Have, Style, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess Trump is joke-worthy more than ever because he's the president. I think Donald Trump being president is more about where the country is at as opposed to it actually being about Donald Trump. It feels like going to couples therapy and really finding out how your other half feels.

  Michael Che

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now it's like if you don't agree with somebody, you probably aren't going to like their jokes. I think comedians are starting to write for their audience and not towards the country.

  Michael Che

  Country, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I feel like you lean in to tell a joke. You don't back up. Comedy lives in that area. I've played amphitheaters, big clubs, and pool halls, and the most fun rooms hold anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people. That intimacy is where comedy really lives.

  Michael Che

  Sweet, Fun, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful. But that's just momentary. And then it's about how to make it work. Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

  Jonathan Santlofer

  Writing, Mean, Laughing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For my job, I act tough. I'm not tough. On the street, I don't go out beating people up and this and that. I used to joke one time on the television station that I never... Everybody that I beat up deserved it. I never beat up an innocent person.

  Mr. T

  Jobs, Innocent Person, People

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote back to the Vatican and made a joke. "It is unfortunate," he said, "that the Lutherans were here before me." By this he meant that Pure Land Buddhism was so much like Lutheranism.

  Ninian Smart

  Buddhism, Japan, Land

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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