Jerry Lewis
Comedian, Actor, Singer
"I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already."
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Jerry Lewis
Comedian, Actor, Singer
"Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor."
Neil Gaiman
Author
"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."
Johnny Carson
Television Host
"Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do."
Debbie Reynolds
Actress, Singer
"I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter better. I thought they had more variety to them, they had more romantic comedies and things that appealed to me more."
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"My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere."
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"Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?"
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"The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope."
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"Dave! Relax! Close your buttcheeks!"
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"There's nothing worse than being an aging young person."
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"I like comedy as a group sport."
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"Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all."
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"Do unto others, then run"
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"All comedy comes from a dark place."
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"The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it."
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"Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure."
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"Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy."
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"For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see."
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"You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R."
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"But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy."
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"Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration."
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"You know you must be doing something right if old people like you."
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"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."
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"When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole."
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"All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage."
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