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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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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
- England
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
- Never
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The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to joke that I already married a 26-year-old and divorced a 29-year-old, so I wasn't going to do that again when I got remarried.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
- President
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I joke that being a university president is akin to being a pinata. But there are also notions of redemption.
- Kid
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We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.
- Funny
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020