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I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.
Marti Noxon
Job
Joke
Always
Feminist
It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.
Martin Freeman
Joke
Think
Way
Telling
About
Something
Like
Talking
Because
Loses
Explaining
Acting
Hard
I'm not making comedy albums. That's too much effort for one joke.
Matt Berry
Comedy
Too Much
Joke
Too
Making
Effort
Much
Albums
Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.
Matt Groening
People
Joke
Every
Everybody
Condescended
Get
Being
Really
Appreciate
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
Matt LeBlanc
Me
Natural
Writing
Comedy
Joke
Setup
Way
Tell
See
Knack
Make
Maybe
Just
Where
My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
Matt Prokop
Mom
Me
Thought
Joke
Sister
Idea
Like
Liked
Always
Trying
Us
Acting
Dad
Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.
Matthew Perry
Saying
Women
Comedy
Dinner
Joke
Half
Think
Everything
Something
Writers
Wrong
Particular
Hour
Around
Always
Explain
Scripting
Then
I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
Matthew Perry
Work
Time
Fear
Joke
Same Thing
Ensemble
Kid
Laugh
Member
Had
Over
Like
Always
Got
Get
Same
Getting
Quite
Center
Whether
Which
Show
Right
Thing
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman
You
Mind
Joke
Trick
He
Toward
Him
Go
Goal
Off
Expect
Listener
Just
Where
Process
Land
Then
Sudden
Nowhere
Plausible
Play
Thing
Twist
Start
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Max Eastman
History
Poet
Joke
Divine
Room
Next
Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.
Maxim Knight
Smile
People
Song
Walk
Dance
Joke
Laugh
Would
Entertaining
Restaurant
Table
Something
Almost
Perform
Since
Sing
Another
Audience
Always
Up
Crack
Loved
Ever
I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.
Maya Rudolph
Me
Writing
Joke
Kid
Those
Fact
Write
Songs
Since
Well
Been
In Fact
Served
Sleep
You know how hard it's been to write material? Because to do stand-up comedy, it takes time for the material to develop. So you'll come up with a joke, you'll tweak it, you'll work it for six months, you really fine tune it, and now you've got a good bit. Well, with Trump, every day there's something new coming out.
Maz Jobrani
Work
Time
Good
Day
You
Every Day
Comedy
Joke
Every
Months
Bit
Out
Fine
Something
Something New
Write
Develop
Takes
New
Come
Know
Well
Because
Got
How
Material
Coming
Been
Trump
Up
Six
Tune
Really
Stand-Up Comedy
Hard
Tweak
Now
I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.
Megan Amram
Jokes
Hate
Humor
Long
Joke
Reading
Every
Think
Possibly
Bad
Would
About
Feel
Make
Truly
Very
Offensive
Want
Anyone
Mean
Really
Hard
I always joke that everything else that I do is to support my theater habit.
Megan Hilty
Joke
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Habit
Support
Always
Theater
When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
Mel B
Somebody
Joke
British Press
Press
Says
Something
Take
Them
Things
Twist
British
I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.
Melanie Scrofano
Saying
Me
You
People
Better
Remember
School
Thought
Joke
High
Would
High School
Guy
Joking
Good-Looking
Like
Goof
Because
Around
Affected
Stopped
Being
Much
Actually
Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.
Merrill Markoe
Work
Smile
People
Some People
Joke
Looking
Plenty
See
Dress
Some
Dress-Up
About
Adorable
Know
Up
Get
Then
Us
Who
Early
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
Michael Bloomberg
Challenges
Legal
People
Joke
Country
Define
Run
New
York
Endless
So Many People
Expensive
New York
Decide
Elections
Reason
Reasons
Many
Why
Here
I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.
Michael Caine
You
Joke
Every
Worry
Insane
Out
Tell
About
Something
Clean
Absolutely
Wipe
Over
Concentrate
Looked
Well
How
Go
Did
Gets
Shot
Next
Slate
Last
If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.
Michael Che
Funny
Good
Try
Joke
Stage
Think
Once
Say
Ways
Possible
Find
Something
Soon
Feels
Like
Until
Different
Rhythm
Mold
Different Ways
Million
I feel like comedy is only respected on the highest level, and on every other level, it's like a joke, like, 'Ugh - comedian,' you know?
Michael Che
You
Comedy
Joke
Every
Other
Respected
Only
Highest
Highest Level
Feel
Like
Comedian
Know
Level
Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.
Michael Clarke Duncan
Funny
Me
School
Thought
Joke
Think
Too
Once
Laugh
Shakespeare
Take
He
Well
Said
Chicago
Same
Oh
Really
Acting
Elementary
Elementary School
Actor
My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'
Michael Keaton
Funny
Me
You
Wonderful
Joke
First
Laugh
Would
Weapon
About
Had
He
Powerful
Powerful Thing
Know
Look
First One
Him
Left
Five
Germany
Manager
Who
Thing
I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.
Michael Lehmann
You
Jokes
Better
Joke
Think
Unless
Logic
About
Make
Just
Movie
Break
I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
Michael Phelps
You
Hero
Joke
Late
Late-Night
Talk
Talk Show
Learned
How
Go
Reference
Being
Show
International
Fast
Night
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