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President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.
Geraldine Ferraro
President
One-Liners
Terrific
Reagan
Were
One-liners that must land perfectly in just the right nanosecond can be terrifying.
Adina Porter
Must
One-Liners
Perfectly
Terrifying
Just
Land
Right
Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
Arthur Smith
Comedy
Hilarious
One-Liners
Know
Been
Commandments
Tragedy
Quicker
Than
May
Ages
Originally
Extent
The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!
Constance Wu
You
People
Resonate
Somebody
Clever
Back
One-Liners
About
More
Obnoxious
Instead
Like
Know
Comedic
Well
Cleverness
Because
Quick
Bunch
Trying
Just
Being
After
Story
While
Really
Choices
Your
Deeper
I've gone through several cycles. When I was little, I was the cute kid with missing teeth and funny one-liners. Then I moved on to be the young guy who wanted to be a grownup.
Gregory Smith
Funny
Young
Gone
Cute
Teeth
Several
Kid
One-Liners
Guy
Through
Missing
Moved
Moved On
Wanted
Young Guy
Little
Then
Cycles
Who
Grownup
My career will come full cycle one day when I play the father of a cute little kid missing teeth who spouts one-liners.
Gregory Smith
Day
Father
Will
Cute
Teeth
Kid
One Day
One-Liners
Missing
Come
Little
Little Kid
Cycle
Full
Who
Play
Career
In its brief 14-episode run, 'Firefly' gave viewers as much chance of witnessing a horseback chase or train robbery as a laser gun and spacefight in any given episode. Snappy one-liners and silly hats were a constant, of course.
Jay Kristoff
Gun
Gave
Run
Constant
One-Liners
Hats
Silly
Given
Chase
Horseback
Robbery
Course
Witnessing
Were
Snappy
Train
Any
Much
Episode
Viewers
Brief
Laser
Chance
High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.
Matthew Vaughn
One-Liners
Industry
Got
Were
Huge
Film
Film Industry
Start
Nobody expects girls to do something smart or give one liners in a film.
Nushrat Bharucha
Smart
Girl
One-Liners
Give
Something
Nobody
Expects
Film
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey
Myself
Together
Competition
Dinner
One-Liners
Some
Having
Put
Maine
New
Talent
Got
Juggling
Did
York
New York
Golden
Theater
Pond
Agent
Then
Play
Routine
Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.
Randy Lerner
You
Say
One-Liners
Only
Shaking
Winning
Supporters
Over
Smiling
Witty
Hands
Getting
Just
Achieved
Quoted
Really
Use
For other comics, it's about full-spectrum dominance, being on panel shows and having one-liners and being a good chat show guest and having a good seven minutes you can do on 'Live At The Apollo.' But I really think about these subsequent finished pieces, you know? And they don't always chop up well into one-liners and routines.
Stewart Lee
Good
You
Finished
Live
Think
Other
Panel
Guest
Seven
One-Liners
Minutes
About
Having
Chat
Know
Pieces
Well
Always
Comics
Up
Dominance
Subsequent
Being
Apollo
Really
Show
Chop
Shows
Routines
I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of one-liners; my brothers are great at telling stories, and my mom is funny without knowing it.
Susan Kelechi Watson
Funny
Mom
Great
Comedy
King
Telling
One-Liners
Brothers
Knowing
Household
Without
Ultimate
Up
Very
Grew
Stories
Dad
When I want to make someone laugh in real life (as opposed to when I'm on stage where I tell one-liners), I tend to do prop comedy. For example, if I'm at the supermarket with my husband, I might put 16 bags of marshmallows in our cart when he's not looking, or if I'm trying to make a kid smile, I'll put my glasses on crooked.
Wendy Liebman
Life
Smile
Glasses
Comedy
Husband
Example
Looking
Real Life
Stage
Our
Kid
Laugh
Tell
Cart
One-Liners
Crooked
Prop
Someone
Supermarket
Tend
He
Put
Bags
For Example
Make
Real
Opposed
Trying
Where
Want
Might
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.
Tom Stoppard
Comedy
Heroes
Kind
One-Liners
I Write
More
Write
Had
Wit
Dazzling
Attractions
Been
Truthful
Than
Wanted
Translate
Translating
Much
Play
I was trying to do one-liners and it took me years to realise I just had to be myself. My fear was if I was myself and no one found it funny, I'd have nowhere left to go.
Michael McIntyre
Funny
Myself
Me
Fear
Took
One-Liners
Had
No-One
Go
Years
Left
Trying
Just
Realise
Found
Nowhere
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