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I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.
Jonathan Winters
Jokes
Characters
I just loved jokes so much as a child. I remember wanting to perform at, like... age seven by reading from a kids' joke book, and my parents being like, 'That's not what standup comedy is,' and me being like, 'Not yet it isn't! I'm going to change the game.'
Josh Gondelman
Me
Game
Change
Jokes
Age
Book
Remember
Comedy
Parents
Joke
Reading
Seven
Kids
Perform
Like
Child
Going
Just
Being
Wanting
Loved
Much
Standup
I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This is what I believe in and I'm comfortable with that and I can make a joke here and there.
Josh Hutcherson
Jokes
Seriously
Joke
Believe
Think
Too
Those
Take
Make
Himself
Comfortable
Themselves
Here
Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.
Josh Peck
Jokes
Hurt
Matter
Always
Gratuitous
Fat
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
Joshua Foer
Jokes
Sex
Our
Evolution
Find
Memorable
About
Seems
Particularly
Brains
Interesting
Therefore
Things
Two
Programmed
You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.
Joss Whedon
Morning
You
Jokes
Late
Late-Night
Favorite
Some
Writer
Had
Absurd
Know
Most
Make
Deadline
Make Up
Because
Always
Up
Your
Four
Early
Night
Early Morning
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
Jokes
Rebellion
Comedy
Field
Tried
Come
Always
Surreal
Left
Left Field
Very
Escapist
Conventional
Against
Subvert
Albeit
Started
Soft
When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.
Julie Klausner
You
Jokes
Giving
First
Think
Twitter
Relative
Way
Concerned
Content
Asked
Your
Away
Started
If I had to write long-form stuff with descriptions of rooms, it would be so boring for me. I like writing dialogue and jokes and situational stuff.
Justin Theroux
Me
Jokes
Writing
Would
Would-Be
Boring
Write
Had
Stuff
Like
Dialogue
Situational
Rooms
Descriptions
One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.
Justin Trudeau
Family
Jokes
People
Citizen
Our
Laughable
Insisted
He
Knew
Most
Until
Him
Robust
Discount
Traditional
His
Very
Getting
Senior
Whenever
Movies
View
Dad
Suddenly
Ever
Among
I still tell a lot of jokes and do a lot of funny comics, but the stuff I like best is the personal stuff. I will still occasionally talk about my job and retail, but it evolved.
Kate Leth
Funny
Best
Jokes
Will
Job
Tell
Evolved
About
Retail
Stuff
Like
Talk
Occasionally
Still
Comics
Lot
Personal
Personal Stuff
I don't know if I necessarily fit in the action-thriller genre, but I'd love to do something where I could actually kick some butt and then tell a few jokes. That would be awesome! That would be my dream job.
Kathleen Rose Perkins
Love
Jokes
Job
Few
Awesome
Kick
Tell
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Some
Something
Could
Know
Genre
Fit
Where
Then
Butt
Actually
Necessarily
Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part.
Kathy Griffin
Best
You
Jokes
Club
Telling
Best Part
Pretty
Never
Part
Know
Most
Well
Audiences
Comics
Opposed
Go
Get
Going
Listen
Forgiving
Different
Which
Much
Really
I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!
Kathy Griffin
Life
Time
Jokes
Joke
Mistakes
Real Life
Stage
Say
Constantly
Make
Policy
Real
Microphone
Apologize
Apology
Ridiculous
Things
I'd get home at 3:30 A.M. from the bar after my shift ended at 1. I'd write jokes, film it, and then sleep. So I did that for two years.
Katie Nolan
Home
Jokes
Write
Shift
Years
Get
Did
Ended
After
Bar
Then
Film
Two
Sleep
I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see me on television. When I work, I'm always thinking, 'Would my mother find this funny?' The belly-laugh jokes will hit her every time.
Kayvan Novak
Work
Love
Funny
Time
Me
Jokes
Mother
Will
Parents
Laziness
Hell
Every
Thinking
Every Time
Television
Mini
Laugh
Would
Find
See
Through
Put
Always
Making
Hit
Grades
Them
Poor
Her
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
Ken Jennings
Alone
You
Jokes
Physics
Old
Though
More
Poetry
Categories
Lots
Questions
Very
Hitchcock
Where
Board
Movies
Plain
Theme
Jeopardy
Now
Watch
When I was very young, I didn't really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples' jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and people like that. And then, for every comic, you develop your own style after a while.
Kevin Nealon
You
Jokes
People
Style
Own
Young
Every
Other
My Own
Write
Develop
Like
Comic
Material
Comics
Very
Just
Established
After
While
Then
Really
Your
Stanley
When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.
Kumail Nanjiani
Me
You
Jokes
People
Technically
Whatever
Twitter
Say
About
Something
Generally
Weird
Name
Know
Make
Bug
Sort
Does
Context
Block
Lot
Being
Who
Even
Pakistani
Based
Every day I do one or two podcasts that 92 percent of people never will hear. I'm constantly producing, constantly making jokes for Twitter. There's a lot of pressure there. On the flip side, I think having to produce like that makes you a better comedian.
Kurt Braunohler
Day
You
Jokes
Every Day
People
Better
Will
Pressure
Every
Think
Twitter
Side
One Or Two
Constantly
Percent
Having
Never
Like
Comedian
Makes
Making
Hear
Lot
Produce
Producing
Flip
Two
I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
Larry Wilmore
Freedom
Me
Jokes
Too
Side
About
Gives
Make
Prove
Left
Trying
Anything
Either
Which
Right
I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
Laura Haddock
Positive
Day
Me
Jokes
School
First
Positive Thing
See
Someone
Had
Dawned
Over
Since
Name
Fish
Heard
Times
Then
Many
Daft
Thing
As far as my personality, my friends and family know I'm crazy! I love to have fun; I'm bubbly. People say I'm funny but I don't know that I'm funny: I don't try to be funny and tell jokes and stuff like that, but I always got something slick to say.
LeToya Luckett
Love
Funny
Family
Crazy
Jokes
People
Have Fun
Personality
Try
Slick
Say
Tell
People Say
Something
Stuff
Like
Know
Always
Got
Friends
Friends And Family
As Far As
Far
Fun
Growing up, the one thing I noticed was that everyone seemed to laugh at my jokes wherever I went.
Lil Dicky
Jokes
Everyone
Laugh
One Thing
Seemed
Up
The One Thing
Wherever
Noticed
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
I never thought, 'I'm going to learn how to be funny now!,' and I'm still surprised when other people think I'm funny. I just learned to make jokes as a way of moving through the world. It helps me deal with all sorts of discomfort and boredom.
Lisa Hanawalt
Funny
Me
Jokes
People
World
Thought
Think
Other
Way
Boredom
Through
Never
Make
Learn
Learned
Sort
Deal
Discomfort
How
Still
Surprised
Going
Just
Moving
Helps
Now
In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you're forcing your beliefs on him.
Lisa Lampanelli
Art
Myself
You
Jokes
Hair
Forcing
Mark
Mark Twain
Slightly
Par
Mustache
Had
He
Comedian
Him
His
Huckleberry
Huckleberry Finn
End
Deny
Artist
In The End
Much
Explore
Your
Twain
Beliefs
Comparing
Now
Thicker
Chance
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