I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
Paul Morrissey
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I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.
Mike O'Malley
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman
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I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
Michael Schur
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I've never sat down and written jokes. I wouldn't know how to.
Kayvan Novak
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I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.
Mitt Romney
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You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.
Hector Elizondo
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.
Carson Daly
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I'm obsessed with reality TV anyway - I use my knowledge of that stuff to make jokes on Twitter and Facebook to get more people to sign up to be fans.
Lisa Lampanelli
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I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
Dave Attell
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The reality about shooting films is that you can shoot many jokes and decide later which one works. So it's not worth fighting about jokes.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.
Daniel Radcliffe
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I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.
Don Rickles
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
Zac Efron
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I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.
Dick Dale
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Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.
Vanessa Bayer
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My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.
Douglas Carter Beane
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There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing themselves. I'd be far too terrified.
Rachel Brosnahan
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Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
David Walton
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
Nathan Fillion
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Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.
Brendon Urie
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
J. Cole
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I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.
Armie Hammer
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