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To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
Neil Peart
Life
Funny
Art
Me
You
Jokes
Difficult
About
More
Highest
Accomplish
Very
Than
Human
Just
Want
Expression
Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep.
Nell Scovell
Life
Jokes
Both
Neurotic
Delivered
He
Observations
Self-Deprecating
Masterpieces
Tightly
Were
His
Truths
Crafted
Stories
Cut
Hard
Deep
Garry
I think the best romantic comedies are hard funny - no soft jokes, but ones that make you, like, guffaw. I also think that they have to make you feel good, ideally, and make you feel warm inside at the end.
Nicholas Stoller
Funny
Best
Good
You
Jokes
Feel Good
Think
Inside
Feel
Like
Ideally
Comedies
Also
Make
End
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Warm
Hard
Soft
When I was a kid, I would do Andrew Dice Clay jokes for my siblings. Like, we'd be on vacation, and I'd just recite Andrew Dice Clay jokes. They seemed to think that was pretty funny. Then it evolved into 'Wayne's World.'
Nick Kroll
Funny
Jokes
World
Think
Recite
Wayne
Kid
Evolved
Andrew
Would
Pretty
Seemed
Clay
Like
Dice
Just
Then
Vacation
Sibling
Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.
Nick Kroll
You
Jokes
People
Better
Comedy
Sense
Collaborative
Joking
Come
Like
Around
Makes
Up
Going
Just
My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'
Nicola Walker
Jokes
Tough
Write
Always
Going
Autobiography
Middle
Which
Dad
Ever
The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.
Nicole Byer
Jokes
People
Comedy
Past
Way
Run
Line
Toe
It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.
Nigel Cole
Love
Me
Jokes
Become
Love Story
Spine
About
Seems
Only
Comedies
Falling
Falling In Love
Years
Hang
Just
Where
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Story
Really
Used
Recent
Recent Years
If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.
Nikki Sixx
Me
You
Jokes
Phone
Just Be
Would
Like
Were
Forget
Cracking
Just
Now
Tommy
Right
Fart jokes still work for me.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Work
Me
Jokes
Still
Fart
I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a week, before you get to do it yourself. I just thought I'd taken the ventriloquism as far as I could. My act is so deconstructive, and I'd made all the monkey jokes anyone wanted to hear.
Nina Conti
You
Jokes
Do-It-Yourself
Yourself
Thought
Made
Year
Before
Monkey
About
Week
Could
Taken
Studying
Looked
Wrote
Ventriloquism
Governing
Hear
Times
Get
Just
Where
As Far As
Wanted
Anyone
Psychoanalysis
Far
Body
Act
Four
Start
I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.
Norm MacDonald
Me
Jokes
Sports
Remember
Try
Everyone
Everything
Super
Super Bowls
Minutiae
No Interest
Write
Self-Contained
Talk
Talk Radio
Make
Sports Fan
Bowls
Sort
Sure
Accessible
Years
Years Ago
Huge
Won
Five
Trying
Listen
Fan
Interest
Who
Radio
But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
Parker Posey
You
Jokes
Would
Would-Be
Be Real
Something
More
Like
Comedians
Real
Doing
Go
Were
Fun
Awake
I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
Patricia Richardson
Character
You
Jokes
Comedy
Way
Plot
About
Writers
Instead
Obsess
Concentrate
Doing
Just
Want
Again
Harder
All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.
Patton Oswalt
Work
Great
Me
Jokes
Will
Say
Inspiration
Onstage
Surest
Doing
Go
Truly
End
Happen
In The End
While
Thing
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.
Paul Feig
You
Jokes
Batting
Thousand
Percent
Never
Going
Just
Happen
Average
One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy, jokes are never far away.
Paul Johnson
Jokes
Whatever
Energy
Fighting
Despairing
Churchill
About
Marvelous
Arguing
Never
He
Bouncing
Doing
Whether
Far
Far Away
Full
Away
Things
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
Paul Merton
Funny
Jokes
About
Remembering
Being
Realised
Being Funny
Them
Turned
Creating
I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
Paul Morrissey
You
Jokes
Reality
Approach
Bit
Adore
Spoof
Irony
Fiction
Theatrical
Avoiding
Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.
Paul Rudd
Life
Jokes
Comedy
My Life
Through
Always
Dealt
Anything
Traumatic
Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.
Paul Rudd
Life
Jokes
My Life
Most
Falling
Been
Brag
Flat
Mean
Personally
I try not to rely on pop culture references as a crutch for jokes, because then, I think, that's when the timelessness quality is lost.
Paul Rust
Jokes
Quality
Culture
Try
Lost
Think
Rely
Crutch
Because
References
Timelessness
Then
Pop
Pop Culture
I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.
Paula Poundstone
Jokes
Will
Before
Favorite
Tell
Favorite Part
Crowd
Part
Talking
Again
Night
Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
Penn Jillette
Good
Jokes
Too
Teller
Penn
Practical
Got
Doing
Stopped
Much
Reason
My jokes have definitely changed. 'SNL' has helped with that, because when you're on 'SNL,' you have to kind of pay attention to the news. I feel like my material has gotten smarter now.
Pete Davidson
News
You
Jokes
Pay
Pay Attention
Changed
Definitely
Kind
Attention
Feel
Smarter
Like
Because
Material
Gotten
SNL
Helped
Now
I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.
Petina Gappah
Jokes
People
Pain
AIDS
Say
Ways
Laugh
Ourselves
Laughing
Find
About
True
Always
Africa
Mean
Many
Even
Coping
Funerals
Funniest
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