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I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'
Gilbert Gottfried
You
Comedy
Old
Will
Mask
Picture
Nowadays
Other
Say
Laughing
Would
Insensitive
Find
Masks
Like
Look
Crying
Looks
Felt
Always
How
Tragedy
Up
Very
Roommates
Two
With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.
Gilbert Gottfried
You
Internet
Spend
Find
Something
Another
Erase
Just
Means
The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.
Gilbert Gottfried
Good
Hurt
People
Joy
Offended
Laugh
Pretend
Sport
Get
Then
Watch
Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Gilda Radner
Beginning
Some
Clear
End
Middle
Stories
If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.
Gina Barreca
Future
Day
You
You Can Do It
Every Day
Trouble
Every
Something
Chart
More
Bother
Take
Take A Chance
Know
Then
Your
Choose
Why
Why Bother
Chance
Imagining
I regard other women as my community, not my competition.
Gina Barreca
Women
Competition
Community
Other
Regard
Appreciate your body now. One day, you'll look back and regret all the time you wasted worrying about not looking perfect, because you were perfect the whole time.
GloZell
Time
Day
You
Regret
Looking
Back
Worrying
One Day
About
Perfect
Look
Because
Were
Body
Your
Your Body
Whole
Now
Wasted
Appreciate
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen
Teacher
Family
Class
Intelligence
School
Smart
Runs
Years
Five
The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.
Gracie Allen
Today
Tomorrow
President
Postage
Just
Stamp
I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
Groucho Marx
Old
Year
Bet
Glad
He
Got
Year-Old
Brain
Rid
Four
She has a wash and wear bridal gown.
Henny Youngman
Wear
She
Gown
Bridal
Wash
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?
Henny Youngman
Time
Drunk
Bad
City
New
Town
Most
York
New York
New York City
Dad
She's a big-hearted girl with hips to match.
Henny Youngman
Girl
She
Match
Hips
Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny Youngman
Men
Before
Wives
Die
Want
Why
Jewish
Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
Howie Mandel
Life
Getting Older
Older
Our
Everything
Kid
Out
Tell
Running
Runs
Had
Course
Were
Lot
Getting
Stories
Happened
You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.
Howie Mandel
Home
You
Money
Absolutely
Go
Go Home
Lot
Skill
I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn't sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a 'talent' did not serve me well as a child. I didn't have friends. I was really an outcast.
Howie Mandel
Me
You
Sit
Young
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Kind
Outcast
Nobody
Nobody Else
Talent
Like
Well
Am
Still
Friends
Child
Did
Impulsive
Want
Really
Now
Serve
Actually
I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy, mentally.
Howie Mandel
World
Better
Healthy
Just Be
Think
Would
Solution
Mentally
Making
Just
I go to therapy a lot. And I'm - I'm open about that, and I try to get the help so that I - so that I can cope and - and make my way in life and with my family.
Howie Mandel
Life
Family
Try
Way
About
Open
Make
Go
Lot
Get
Help
Therapy
Cope
Modesty is my best quality.
Jack Benny
Best
Quality
Modesty
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
Jack Dee
Religion
Seriously
Too
Took
Would
Somehow
Overall
Liked
Discard
However
Effect
Depressing
Much
Really
The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
Jack Dee
Attitude
Great
Jokes
Matters
Top
Laughs
Rather
He
Performance
Between
Comedian
His
Than
Gets
Really
Whole
In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
Jack Dee
Resource
Ways
Has-Been
Comedic
Been
Fitting
Fitting In
Many
Asset
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
Jack Dee
Swimming
Drawn
Constantly
Disturbing
Feet
Particular
Like
Tied
Praying
Very
Your
Bricks
Found
The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.
Jack Dee
Life
Time
Book
Comedy
My Life
First
Thanks
Nothing
Every
Back
Relevant
Kind
About
Traces
First Time
Got
How
Years
Years Ago
Up
Goes
Autobiography
Stops
Story
Really
Strand
Stand
Stand Up
Right
Most scams are absurd - so absurd that one wonders how anyone falls for them at all; yet if no one falls for them, how do the scammers make money?
James Veitch
Money
Scams
No-One
Absurd
Most
Make
How
Falls
Wonders
Anyone
Them
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