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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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- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shore Leave is the one who evolved the most - because he started as a one-off joke because we were gagging on how the G.I. Joe vocationally specific-themed characters reminded us of the Village People. We made a sassy Village People kind of guy, and then we brought him back.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was working with Barry Sonnenfeld, I'd watch him set up a shot and talk to him about what he was seeing and what it was to shoot comedy. He told me that a lot of times with comedy, it's not just about getting the joke, but getting a reaction to the joke. That's the laugh - it's somebody's else's reaction to the joke.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.
- Live Tv
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live TV is no joke.
- Coming Of Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I go and buy a coffee, and somebody asks me what I do, I'll say, 'I find asteroids.' And the first thing they always do is make a Bruce Willis joke, or they are going to bring up Armageddon.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020