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When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.
Michael Schur
Character
You
Joke
Reading
Table
Someone
Perfect
Like
Read
Sound
Line
Snap
Pitches
Just
Place
Your
Actor
Imagine
Set
I'm not big on fat jokes. That's a little beneath me. I'm not a huge fan of making a joke - and as I say this, I'm sure I do it - completely at someone else's expense.
Michael Showalter
Me
Jokes
Joke
Big
Beneath
Else
Say
Someone
Sure
Making
Huge
Huge Fan
Expense
Fan
Little
Fat
I think I'm a good joke writer. I'm also very scared that the last joke I wrote is the last joke I'll ever write.
Michelle Wolf
Good
Joke
Think
Scared
Write
Writer
Also
Wrote
Very
Ever
Last
Some comedy has turned into, 'Donald Trump's bad, isn't he?' That's a true statement. But where is your joke?
Michelle Wolf
Comedy
Joke
Statement
Bad
Some
He
True
Trump
Donald
Where
Turned
Your
There's a lot of nuances to stand-up that you definitely see when you watch someone like Chris Rock in that his body position is also part of why the joke works.
Michelle Wolf
You
Joke
Definitely
See
Someone
Part
Like
Also
Rock
His
Lot
Body
Works
Chris
Why
Chris Rock
Nuances
Watch
Position
It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.
Michelle Wolf
Joke
Out
Someone
Make
Hard
Twitter is a good medium to lean how to write jokes. It pushes you to write a better joke in that, on Twitter, the first joke about something has already happened. You need to think of the second joke and the third joke.
Michelle Wolf
Good
You
Jokes
Better
Joke
First
Think
Twitter
Medium
About
Something
Write
Pushes
Lean
How
Happened
Second
Need
Third
I think Trump is terrible for comedy. A lot of people say he is great. He's not. You can't joke a joke.
Michelle Wolf
Great
You
People
Comedy
Joke
Think
Say
People Say
He
Terrible
Trump
Lot
Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'
Mike Birbiglia
Funny
Me
You
Conversation
Joke
Party
Strangers
Later
Once
Say
Someone
Having
Take
Come
Comedian
Well
Said
How
Yeah
Repeat
Going
Oh
Just
Oh Yeah
Wanted
Then
Now
Let's be completely honest: the Trump campaign's social media was a joke.
Mike Cernovich
Social Media
Joke
Trump
Campaign
Social
Media
Honest
I think all actors, when they're not working, say, 'If I can get to this point where I'm working on a consistent basis, I'll be happy.' Of course, then, if that happens for you, and you're lucky, you find some other reason to complain. There's a joke: 'If you want to hear an actor complain, give him a job.'
Mike Colter
You
Be Happy
Happy
Job
Joke
Think
Other
Complain
Say
Consistent
Find
Some
Give
Point
Him
Course
Hear
Get
Where
Want
Happens
Then
Working
Reason
Lucky
Actor
Basis
I always make a joke: 'Don't look into the future; it's too bright.' That's as positive as I can be.
Mike Colter
Positive
Future
Joke
Too
Look
Make
Always
Bright
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
Miranda Raison
Joke
Community
Earnestness
Find
Some
Point
Most
Always
Themselves
Sentimentality
Descending
Shows
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
Miroslav Vitous
Me
Knowledge
You
School
Father
Joke
Worse
Some
Give
Give Me
Student
Come
Because
Pass
Coming
His
Off
Very
Than
Trying
Tuition
Upsetting
Break
Really
Pays
Serious
Street
Treated
Basically
I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.
Mitch Hedberg
Words
Joke
Adding
Out
Taking
New
New Ones
Fix
Gonna
Last
The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
Mitch Leigh
Old
Joke
Leigh
Land
Barren
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.
Mitchel Resnick
You
Language
Joke
Become
Fluent
Tell
Someone
Similar
Write
Entry
Journal
New
Friend
New Technologies
Means
Your
Letter
Technologies
My friends would always joke that I'm 'the grandmother' and 'the homebody' because I can't stay up past nine o'clock, but a lot of that rest is so important for me.
Molly Qerim
Me
Rest
Joke
Important
Past
Nine
Would
Stay
Because
Always
Lot
Up
Friends
Grandmother
Homebody
I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the African Cup of Nations - and preferably winning it.
Mona Eltahawy
Rare
Joke
National
Winning
Identify
Cup
Squad
Times
Egyptians
Nations
African
Soccer
Playing
British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.
Morrissey
Funny
Politics
World
Joke
Rarely
Knows
British
I was afraid no one would laugh, and I wanted to pretend I wasn't noticing the audience. I didn't want the audience to get the idea I was telling a joke and waiting for a laugh.
Mort Sahl
Waiting
Joke
Laugh
Telling
Pretend
Would
No-One
Idea
Audience
Get
Afraid
Want
Wanted
Noticing
There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
Mose Allison
Jokes
Somewhere
Joke
Few
Humorous
Mine
Point
Point Of View
Most
Tunes
Them
View
I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.
Nargis Fakhri
Time
Jokes
Fight
People
Will
Joke
Laugh
Make
Crack
Even
Being a fighter is no joke. Year in and year out. Especially as a world champion. All eyes are on you, and you can't go where you want, eat what you want.
Naseem Hamed
You
Eyes
Champion
World
Joke
Year
Fighter
Out
Eat
Go
Being
Where
Want
World Champion
For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
Natasha Leggero
Time
Good
Thoughts
You
Jokes
Discipline
Joke
Gauge
Back
Our
Spending
Spending Time
Kind
Through
Develop
Takes
Developing
Instead
Comedians
How
How Many Times
Go
Times
Gets
Them
Might
Then
Tweeting
Many
Tweets
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
Ned Beauman
Funny
Writing
Joke
Some
Like
Match
Surroundings
Quite
Little
Hard
Level
Tone
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