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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom -
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
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There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
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A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
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Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.
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