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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
Wale
Me
Jokes
Racism
Back
Everything
Ways
Both
Both Ways
Blatant
Call
Going
Where
Want
Sensitive
Them
Racial
Show
Right
Right Back
Need
It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
Wanda Sykes
Myself
Jokes
First
Out
More
Put
Instead
Until
Became
Confident
Behind
Just
Forward
At one point, I wrote 20 jokes a day, and I had a commitment to send them to the same three people. Now, I just write down what my husband says in his sleep. He's the funniest person, even unconscious.
Wendy Liebman
Day
Jokes
Commitment
People
Husband
Three
Down
Says
Point
Write
Had
Unconscious
He
Wrote
His
Person
Same
Send
Just
Them
Even
Now
Funniest
Sleep
I used to write jokes with friends. We'd pick a topic and then think out loud, brainstorm.
Wendy Liebman
Jokes
Think
Topic
Out
Write
Pick
Brainstorm
Friends
Loud
Then
Used
The audience loves when the comedian talks to them. You're creating inside jokes, which creates a community.
Wendy Liebman
You
Jokes
Community
Inside
Comedian
Talks
Audience
Which
Loves
Them
Creates
Creating
I had a moment where I was onstage once... As a comedian, you just think, 'Be funny as possible all the time - like, funny at all costs - jokes, jokes, jokes.' That's how my mentality was.
Whitney Cummings
Funny
Time
You
Jokes
Think
Once
Possible
Costs
Mentality
Onstage
Had
Like
Comedian
How
Just
Where
Moment
Being on the plane is my catch-up time. I write thank-you notes. I read. I write stand-up jokes.
Whitney Cummings
Time
Jokes
Write
Read
Being
Notes
Plane
Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact.
Will Arnett
Time
You
Jokes
Big
Build
Resonates
Impact
Emotional
Emotional Level
Around
Big Impact
Any
Going
Story
Level
Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.
Will Smith
Work
Character
You
Jokes
Hilarious
Energy
Type
Say
Would
He
Like
Look
Most
Talks
How
His
Lee
Fugitive
Body
Tommy
I make jokes. That's what I do.
Wyatt Cenac
Jokes
Make
I know for myself, every now and again on HBO, they'll show some of the young comedian specials from the '80s and early '90s, and it's just fascinating to watch those comedians - some of whom are people that are world-famous, like Chris Rock or Judd Apatow - to see the jokes that people had, but also, the way everything looked.
Wyatt Cenac
Myself
Jokes
People
Young
Every
Everything
Way
Those
See
Some
Had
Like
Comedian
Know
Comedians
Looked
Also
Rock
Just
Again
Show
Fascinating
Whom
Now
Chris
Chris Rock
Watch
Early
Steven Wright can do Steven Wright very well. Not everyone can do Steven Wright's jokes with the same results.
Wyatt Cenac
Jokes
Everyone
Wright
Results
Steven
Well
Very
Same
All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
Yahoo Serious
Me
Jokes
Comedy
Try
Mirror
Big
Films
Up
Just
Hold
Us
I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.
Yair Lapid
Jokes
Fond
New
Particularly
Because
Were
Auschwitz
Optimistic
Forget
York
New York
Cannot
Place
Then
Pessimists
Why
A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
Zac Efron
Jokes
Girl
Tell
Telling
Bad
Like
Blush
Her
Start
My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
Zach Anner
Great
Family
Jokes
Sense Of Humor
Amazing
Videos
Humor
Sense
Because
Making
Doing
Childhood
Just
Things
I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.
Zach Galifianakis
Day
Jokes
Every Day
Try
Three
Sit
Down
Every
Onstage
Write
Head
Fail
Go
Just
Them
Then
Pop
Things
Watch
Night
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Tom Stoppard
Jokes
Age
Remember
Word
Long
Joke
Looking
Back
Seven
I Can
Puns
I Remember
Liked
Comic
How
Precisely
Six
Literally
Far
Worked
Recall
Enjoyed
I’ve still got a bit of angst about campaigning for a particular party. I want to write jokes about whoever I want without toeing a party line.
Nish Kumar
Jokes
Party
Bit
About
Angst
Write
Particular
Without
Party Line
Got
Still
Line
Campaigning
Want
Whoever
I tended toward animated material that wasn't just for kids. I could tell as a kid watching those shows that I loved the jokes that I got but I also loved the jokes I didn't get because I felt that I was hanging out with a smarter, cooler audience.
Alex Hirsch
Jokes
Kid
Those
Kids
Out
Tell
Could
Animated
Toward
Smarter
Also
Because
Felt
Audience
Got
Material
Get
Hanging
Just
Loved
Cooler
Shows
Watching
I think anything is possible if the jokes are good.
Neal Brennan
Good
Jokes
Think
I Think
Possible
Anything
Anything Is Possible
I think that there’s a real appetite for opinion-driven satire, not just generic making jokes about what’s in the news but actually point-of-view-driven stuff.
Nish Kumar
News
Satire
Jokes
Think
I Think
About
Generic
Stuff
Making
Real
Just
Appetite
Actually
It's way more fun to tell jokes for an hour than it is to sit in a room and bash your head against the wall trying to think of sketches.
Neal Brennan
Jokes
Sit
Think
Way
Tell
More
Head
Hour
Than
Wall
Trying
Against
Room
Sketches
Your
Fun
Bash
People get so heated about it and can't see the funny side, I think. And plus, everything's been said. It must be really difficult to come up with new jokes about Brexit.
Diane Morgan
Funny
Jokes
People
Difficult
Think
Side
Everything
I Think
Must
See
Plus
About
New
Come
Said
Been
Up
Get
Heated
Really
Brexit
I always thought that the film would be successful if we captured Harvey Milk, like the way Harvey really was-the personality, the humor, the corny bad jokes, all of it.
Dustin Lance Black
Jokes
Personality
Humor
Thought
Corny
Way
Harvey
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Like
Always
Really
Successful
Captured
Film
Milk
I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.
Mike O'Malley
Jokes
Joke
Guts
Commencement
Did
Biggest
Speech
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