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I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.
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I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.
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I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
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In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
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It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
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It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.
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Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.
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People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.
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There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
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