Jokes Quotes - Page 6

• I can't imagine saying the same joke for three hours. I don't know how that would work.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  Three, Imagine, Hours

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• As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

  Alex Hirsch

  Drawing, Long, Lucky

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• When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons are not making the joke.

  Robert Mankoff

  People, Cartoon, Looks

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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• The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.

  Robert Mankoff

  People, Generations, Lines

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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• I hope I never have to stop acting. I love it. But, I think the coolest thing about acting is working with these amazing people all the time, and writing represented a new way to meet those people and to tell stories, at the same time, which I've always wanted to do, and to tell jokes. I love comedy, so writing was a way of getting these jokes that I had down on the page.

  Josh Lawson

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I love dark humor. I love things that are so grounded in life, but just happen to be just a little bit twisted because my sense of humor is a little bit twisted. I love jokes that shouldn't be funny, but are. Those types of things just really make me laugh.

  Rockmond Dunbar

  Dark, Laughing, Littles

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• You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

  Lenny Bruce

  Laughter, Pay, Sense Of Humor

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Views, Optimism, Might

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• It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

  Nick Hornby

  Stupid, Ejaculation, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.183, Penguin

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• Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Going Away, Ashamed, Hollow

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• Remember that Cosby show where he harrassed the children? Well I put on a little suit and because I am so small they invited me on but nobody was laughing at my jokes. I guess I'm just, too, particularly smart for them.

  Thom Yorke

  Children, Smart, Laughing

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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  Sally Phillips

  Writing, Absurd, Situation

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• The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.

  Sy Safransky

  Stupid, Home, Night

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• It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

  Demetri Martin

  Two, Stories, Comedy

  "Demetri Martin Talks Comedy". Interview with Harmon Leon, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

  Demetri Martin

  Block, Play, Use

  "Demetri Martin Talks Comedy". Interview with Harmon Leon, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, Cutting, People

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• That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

  Laurie Colwin

  Kitchen, Layers, Events

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• Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

  Dave Attell

  Couple, Firsts, Sometimes

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 19, 2003.

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• I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes.

  Dave Attell

  Comic

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 19, 2003.

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• The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more comfortable as a performer, sharing my opinions on things, or things that've happened to me. That's where it's really going.

  Hannibal Buress

  Talking, Stories, Becoming

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• I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

  David Cross

  Angry

  "David Cross from Arrested Development". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 1, 2004.

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• I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.

  Craig Ferguson

  Accents, Knows, I Can

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• Taking a call girl to an STD fair... there's a joke here.

  Donald Glover

  Girl, Stds, Fairs

  "Fictional character: Troy Barnes". "Community", TV Series (2009–2015). "Politics of Human Sexuality", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• [Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Voice, Silence

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• I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.

  Andy Murray

  Worry, Messages, Disappointing

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