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I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.
Steve Harvey
Life
Jokes
Old
My Life
Stage
Telling
Some
Something
Years
Want
Mean
Standing
People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.
Steve Harvey
Life
Me
Jokes
Heart
People
Joy
My Life
Laughing
Telling
See
No Idea
Had
Idea
Over
After
Show
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
Steve Martin
Day
Me
You
Jokes
Laughter
Punch
Punch Line
Say
Laugh
Laughs
Bothered
Sincerely
Comedians
Operating
Audience
Said
Real
Line
Were
Lines
Automatic
Automatically
Either
Realized
Moment
Thing
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
Steven Moffat
Myself
Jokes
Happy
Comedy
Sense
Think
Humour
Tell
Rather
Writer
Know
Without
How
Lots
Than
Story
People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.
Steven Wright
Jokes
People
Illusion
Think
Imagination
Telling
Give
Something
Something New
New
Continue
Trying
May
Just
Stories
Really
Creating
Connected
Using
Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.
Steven Wright
Good
Jokes
Money
Else
Gems
Seem
Someone
Give
Idea
Come
Just
Them
Hard
Even
Right
Good Idea
Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.
Steven Wright
Jokes
People
Will
Predict
Laugh
Only
Still
Works
Ever
Four
I sent an ex of mine an enormous oil painting of me as a housewarming gift. It was one of the most elaborate and time-consuming practical jokes I've ever done.
Sue Perkins
Me
Jokes
Gift
Painting
Enormous
Mine
Most
Practical
Time-Consuming
Done
Oil
Elaborate
Sent
Ever
No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.
Sylvia Hoeks
Love
Jokes
Pickup
Worst
Lines
I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
Taran Killam
Me
Jokes
People
Half
Down
Enjoy
Gauge
Definitely
Laugh
Possible
Comprehension
Only
Take
Failed
Like
Joyful
Know
Half Years
Makes
Go
Repeat
Years
Anybody
Certainly
Works
Things
Two
I don't want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch 'Cheers' because it's very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, 'This is the great show of the universe?' To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes.
Teri Garr
Funny
Great
Me
Jokes
People
Universe
Characters
Great Show
Cheers
Because
Making
Sound
Doing
Very
Just
Want
Should
Acting
Show
Believable
Watch
Watched
They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.
Theo Von
Funny
Jokes
People
Just
If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won't always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good. He knows when to be among his players, as 'one of us' making jokes as a friend, and when to be strong and distant, even severe.
Thibaut Courtois
Life
Good
Jokes
Strong
Be Strong
Difficult
Sidelines
Everything
Distant
Severe
Kind
Spirit
He
Well
Knows
Becomes
Always
Making
His
Friend
Handle
Us
Coach
Transmitting
Even
Among
Players
Before I had a double mastectomy, I was already pretty flat-chested, and I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that I started to think that maybe my boobs overheard me... and were just like, 'You know what? We're sick of this. Let's kill her.'
Tig Notaro
Me
You
Jokes
Made
Before
Think
Sick
Pretty
About
Small
Had
Over
Like
Know
Mastectomy
Overheard
How
Were
Chest
Years
Maybe
Just
Double
Many
Her
Started
I think I was a behavior problem, mostly, but in a fun way. I tried to tell jokes. I was the middle kid, so I was always looking for attention and trying to be the one that equalized everything.
Timothy Simons
Jokes
Problem
Behavior
Looking
Think
Everything
Way
Kid
Tell
Tried
Attention
Mostly
Always
Trying
Middle
Fun
I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.
Tom Bennett
Soul
Jokes
Heart
People
Worth
Comedy
Salt
Enjoy
Think
Otherwise
Comedies
Heart And Soul
Bunch
Any
Just
Decent
Them
But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.
Tom Hanks
You
Jokes
Whatever
Television
About
Something
Could
Had
Wrong
Make
Material
Doing
Scoring
Bang
Really
Pop
I used to do much shorter jokes a lot more.
Tom Segura
Jokes
More
Lot
Much
Used
When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.
Tony Rock
You
Jokes
Personality
Written
Perform
Doing
However
Just
Your
Standup
The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously.
Twinkle Khanna
Time
Me
Jokes
Old
Write
Column
Read
Editor
Friend
According
Cracked
Lame
Old Friend
Newspaper
Asked
Who
Her
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
Tyler Perry
Wisdom
Character
Soul
Jokes
Heart
People
Drop
Stage
Other
Laugh
Characters
Anesthetic
Able
Over
Making
Real
Issues
Been
Years
Heart And Soul
Real Issues
Get
While
Use
Found
Pearls
My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
Vanessa Bayer
Funny
Jokes
Joke
Too
Funny Guy
Would
About
Guy
Over
Come
Make
Friends
Really
Dad
Leukemia
Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.
Vanessa Bayer
Jokes
Stage
Group
Every
Table
More
Through
Writers
Ideas
Piece
Around
Goes
Pitches
Rewrite
Where
Sketch
I used to tell jokes about Internet-enabled lightbulbs. I can't tell jokes about it anymore - there already is an Internet-connected lightbulb.
Vint Cerf
Jokes
Tell
About
Anymore
Used
Once I took to Twitter and shared those jokes, they became a huge hit. My following grew, and some of the posts got thousands of retweets. With so many shares, money from sponsors followed.
Virender Sehwag
Jokes
Money
Twitter
Took
Once
Those
Thousands
Some
Followed
Following
Posts
Shared
Shares
Sponsors
Became
Got
Huge
Hit
Grew
Many
The jokes I was always attracted to, and that I would tell for the longest, were jokes where I cared about the subject. Whenever I wrote a joke where I didn't care, even if it was really funny, the third time I told it, it would lose steam.
W. Kamau Bell
Funny
Time
Jokes
Care
Joke
Lose
Tell
Would
About
Steam
Longest
Attracted
Wrote
Always
Were
Subject
Whenever
Where
Really
Even
Cared
Third
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