- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joke Quotes
What comedians say about making people laugh.
Several quotes here come from people who make a living off timing, including one who admits to softening blunt criticism by wrapping it in humor first, describing it like a cut followed by a few stitches. Another describes the frustrating double standard where the exact same line lands only when a man delivers it.
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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020