I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
Rachel Bloom
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When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'
David Walton
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Most jokes state a bitter truth.
Larry Gelbart
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My whole life, I've been telling jokes.
Brad Garrett
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
Armistead Maupin
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
Gary Owen
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It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.
Wyatt Cenac
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
Adam DeVine
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Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
Penn Jillette
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I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines.
Sebastian Maniscalco
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I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.
Ricky Gervais
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I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
Marilyn Monroe
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Most of my standup is about stuff that makes me uncomfortable. There are also things I don't joke about. I don't do jokes about the people who helped me get sober.
Martha Kelly
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Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
Jim Fowler
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I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist.
Julian Barratt
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As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.
Joan Rivers
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When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.
Graham Kennedy
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All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.
Joel McHale
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My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.
Emo Philips
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I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.
Andrew Hudgins
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You can't just yell jokes at people.
David Cross
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My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
Robert Harris
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Richard Pryor - he had stories, he had characters, he had short jokes, and he had bits. He had all those things. Eddie Murphy has all those things, and he can sing. A comedian is a bunch of stuff; it's not just one area.
Charlie Murphy
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