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When I watch movies with my kid like 'Shrek,' I'm like, 'Wow, this is pretty funny.' That's why I wanted to start doing movies like that - so my kid would laugh at my jokes.
Michael Pena
Funny
Jokes
Kid
Laugh
Would
Wow
Pretty
Like
Doing
Wanted
Movies
Shrek
Why
Start
Watch
All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.
Michael Schur
Jokes
Comedy
Out
Some
Trying
Stories
Whether
Show
Level
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
A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.
Michael Showalter
Jokes
People
Humor
Feeling
Few
Think
Telling
Prevent
Disbelief
Audiences
Lot
Off
Few People
Centers
Might
Certain
Act
Help
I'm very quiet off stage. I think I'm a pretty boring person. I'm not super talkative; I spend a lot of my time running and zoning out. I spend so much time trying to write jokes and 'be on,' so when I'm finally off stage, I just want to sit.
Michelle Wolf
Time
Jokes
Sit
Stage
Think
Spend
Finally
Out
Running
Boring
Super
Pretty
My Time
Write
Talkative
Lot
Off
Very
Quiet
Person
Trying
Just
So Much Time
Want
Much
Zoning
As a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes. I don't mean physically hit. But you know, because I'm a woman, I can say things about women because I know what it's like to be a woman, if that makes any sense.
Michelle Wolf
You
Jokes
Woman
Women
Men
Sense
Way
Say
Able
About
Physically
Like
Know
Because
Makes
Access
Hit
Any
Mean
Them
Might
Things
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
Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.
Mike Birbiglia
Myself
Jokes
People
Every
Other
About
Road
Comedian
Make
Going
Fork
Fork In The Road
Where
Decide
Themselves
Chose
Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.
Mike Birbiglia
Together
Jokes
Ways
Personal
Us
Many
Bring
It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do publicity for movies or TV shows, and they do all the jokes that are good in the promotion of it, and you see the movie, and you're like, 'I kind of get it already. I'm not that psyched about it.'
Mike Birbiglia
Good
You
Jokes
Sometimes
Difficult
Kind
TV
TV Shows
Promotion
See
About
Someone
Like
Go
Line
Get
Psyched
Where
Movie
Movies
Shows
Publicity
Tread
Watch
I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.
Mike Scully
Jokes
Country
Write
Did
Act
Used
Show
All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
Mitch Hedberg
Funny
Me
Jokes
Been
Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.
Mitchell Hurwitz
You
Jokes
Waiting
Seen
Realistic
Otherwise
Laugh
Laugh Track
About
Direct
Seem
Something
Take
Make
Track
Lines
Just
Them
Might
When I write 'Beetle Bailey,' I can always do jokes about him being lazy, and everyone gets it.
Mort Walker
Jokes
Everyone
About
Write
Lazy
Bailey
Him
Always
Beetle
Gets
Being
Being Lazy
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
Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.
Mr. T
Jokes
Drunk
Telling
Sloppy
Dirty
Getting
Them
Whatever I do - whether it's directing, producing - I just come at things from characters, from stories, from jokes and scene rhythms. I'll always have that at the epicenter, I think.
Nahnatchka Khan
Jokes
Whatever
Think
Characters
Directing
Scene
Come
Always
Just
Stories
Whether
Rhythms
Producing
Things
I guess I tell jokes a lot, but I'm not really that sure because sometimes they don't laugh, and they just stare at me like I said something insulting.
Naomi Osaka
Me
Jokes
Sometimes
Guess
Laugh
Tell
Something
Like
Sure
Because
Insulting
Said
Lot
Just
Really
Stare
I feel like I'm a child of the Internet, and the Internet has raised me, and its jokes might not be appropriate at certain times. So, I keep them locked inside.
Naomi Osaka
Me
Jokes
Internet
Appropriate
Locked
Inside
Feel
Like
Times
Child
Them
Might
Certain
Keep
Raised
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
Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.
Natasha Leggero
Jokes
Neil
Writes
Hamburger
Cutting
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
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
Natasha Lyonne
Great
You
Jokes
People
Old
Think
Baby
Circus
Would
Entertaining
Entertaining People
Prone
Gypsy
Put
Know
Liked
Well
Industry
Making
Real
Been
Years
Child
Done
Six
Just
Them
Should
Working
Your
Your Child
Certainly
Street
Necessarily
Played
There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
Nate Corddry
Funny
Family
Creative
Jokes
People
Dinner
Funny People
Dinner Table
Table
Absolutely
Sure
Around
Were
Lot
Up
Grow
Grow Up
Growing
Growing Up
There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman
Myself
Freedom
Jokes
Comedy
Old
Made
Glorious
Sense
Tell
Folk
Allowing
Up
Just
African
Stories
Interrupt
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.
Neil Patrick Harris
Jokes
People
First
Healthy
Nice
Enjoy
Pleasant
Chunk
Spent
Complications
Darker
All-American
Some
More
Wit
Than
Average
Fun
Nice People
Playing
Career
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