- Humor
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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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- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
- Graham
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not much of a joke writer.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I'm from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don't just go, 'Oh, I want to be an actor'. They'd laugh and joke about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't try to impress people. Sometimes my jokes can be very harsh; I'm very sarcastic. I would joke about something disgusting, and my agent might be like, 'OK, maybe leave that behind for this one meeting. The burping? Maybe don't do that.'
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's cool about Twitter is that you can make a joke about something very of-the-moment or random that I wouldn't be able to joke about in stand-up.
- Gods
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at Facebook in 2012, during the previous presidential race. The fact that Facebook could easily throw the election by selectively showing a Get Out the Vote reminder in certain counties of a swing state, for example, was a running joke.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
With every side I've played for, I've always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that's what's happened with Les Bleus.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020