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I think, in a film that's supposed to last an hour and a half, I think you have to really pay attention to what kind of movie you're making, what is the audience experiencing, and does this joke fit with this joke?
Jay Chandrasekhar
You
Joke
Half
Pay
Pay Attention
Think
Kind
Attention
Hour
Supposed
Hour And A Half
Audience
Does
Making
Fit
Movie
Experiencing
Really
Film
Last
We write and write and write until we think, 'If we have to shoot this script, we'll be happy, and it's going to be a great movie.' I meet with all the actors two weeks before, and I ask them, 'What lines don't work? What is uncomfortable for you? What jokes do you think aren't good? If you're not getting it, here's what the joke is.' You fix it.
Jay Chandrasekhar
Work
Good
Great
You
Be Happy
Jokes
Happy
Joke
Before
Think
Meet
Great Movie
Uncomfortable
Weeks
Write
Until
Lines
Fix
Shoot
Getting
Going
Movie
Script
Them
Ask
Actor
Here
Two
Two Weeks
If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.
Jay Chandrasekhar
Will
Joke
Assume
Other
Our
Tribe
Laugh
Make
Makes
I've never seen Kendrick Lamar crack a joke, and I've met him, but I'm sure he's hilarious, too, just because he's so good at rapping. J. Cole is a funny guy as well. Drake is funny. But who's the funniest guy I've met who is a rapper? I would say 50 Cent.
Jay Pharoah
Funny
Good
Rapper
Seen
Joke
Hilarious
Met
Too
Funny Guy
Drake
Say
Would
Rapping
Guy
Never
He
Well
Him
Sure
Because
Crack
Just
Just Because
Cent
Who
Funniest
I like to joke that if I had a dollar for everybody who slapped me on the back and said, 'Hey Jeb, you're all set,' I'd be retired now.
Jeb Bradley
Me
You
Joke
Everybody
Back
Hey
Had
Retired
Like
Said
Dollar
Who
Now
Slapped
Set
When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'
Jeff Greenfield
You
Son
Mother
Debate
Matter
Dinner
Joke
Every
Other
Complaints
Presidential
Says
Follow
Wearing
About
He
Reminded
Like
She
Up
Shirts
Listen
Just
Who
Shows
Her
Buys
Two
Jewish
I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.
Jeff Lindsay
Try
Joke
Possible
Slips
Write
Then
Serious
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.
Jeff Ross
Funny
Me
You
Somebody
Somewhere
Joke
Every
Observation
Gotta
Offend
Want
After
Apologize
If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.
Jen Kirkman
Lie
People
Sometimes
Will
Joke
Write
Call
Fascinated
I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.
Jenifer Lewis
Joke
Hair
Been
Burn
I legit can not parallel park. This is no joke!
Jennifer Damiano
Joke
Parallel
Park
Lacroix has been fantastic. He's very nice. He gets the joke, and I think that's a good thing.
Jennifer Saunders
Good
Joke
Nice
Think
Has-Been
Good Thing
He
Been
Very
Gets
Fantastic
Thing
I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!
Jenny Holzer
People
Joke
Painting
Think
Lately
Fabricate
Finger
Piece
Which
Then
Should
Who
Competent
Started
I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.
Jenny Lewis
You
People
Free
Joke
Lost
Bad
Onstage
Feel
Like
Drums
Anonymity
Make
Known
Felt
Loose
Hear
Up
Decade
Get
Personal
Behind
Certain
Hard
Moment
Amount
I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.
Jenny Slate
Love
Funny
Sometimes
Comedy
Joke
Important
Think
Characters
More
Sacrificed
Than
Often
Whenever I passed by a Chinese restaurant in a car, I'd joke to my friends, 'Oh yeah, my uncle owns that place.'
Jenny Zhang
Car
Uncle
Joke
Restaurant
Passed
Yeah
Friends
Oh
Owns
Oh Yeah
Whenever
Place
Chinese
I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.
Jens Lekman
Dignity
People
Song
Joke
Stupid
Think
Otherwise
Bit
Eye
Characters
Entertain
Entertain People
Would
Would-Be
Wrap
Silly
Songs
Written
Feel
Come
Always
Line
Lot
End
Up
Very
In The End
Little
Tear
Last
You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.
Jermaine Fowler
Funny
You
Comedy
Joke
Someone
How
Making
Different
Formulate
Teach
Standup
I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out a joke, how to stick with it for a while. It also made me more confident onstage as a performer.
Jermaine Fowler
Me
People
Writing
School
Wait
Made
Joke
Out
High
High School
About
Structure
More
Onstage
Performer
Since
Also
Stick
How
Been
Friends
Confident
Taught
While
Sketches
Really
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.
Jessamyn West
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Joke
Sense
Oneself
More
Takes
Than
Hearts
Taste
Irony
Which
Breaking
Kept
Appreciate
When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
Jhonen Vasquez
Home
Book
Writing
Joke
Drive
Enough
Characters
Laughing
Seemed
Seems
He
Himself
How
Get
Just
Far
Really
Full
Series
I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.
Jimmy Carr
Funny
Me
You
Rude
Joke
Type
Mine
Find
Write
Comedian
Yes
Often
Happen
Plan
Juvenile
Certain
On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to be. I'm not doing something sneaky. Inside jokes, I don't like those. We can all ride together, and everyone's on the same thing going, 'Aha, I know where you're going here.'
Jimmy Fallon
You
Together
Jokes
Ride
Joke
Same Thing
Late
Late-Night
Everyone
Those
Inside
Something
Like
Know
Doing
Sneaky
Same
Going
Where
Wanted
Thing
Here
Night
If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
Jimmy Nail
You
Speak
Joke
First
Before
Think
Other
Guy
His
Gets
That's what's great about standup comedy: the instant feedback. You get up on stage, you tell a joke, if it doesn't work, come back the next day with a better version of it.
Jimmy O. Yang
Work
Day
Great
You
Better
Feedback
Comedy
Joke
Stage
Back
Tell
About
Instant
Come
Version
Up
Get
Next
Standup
We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.
Joan Rivers
You
Joke
Laugh
Make
Comics
Get
Then
Us
Apologize
Watch
Here
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