"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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"People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them."
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"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
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"Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight."
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"I see parody as another form of comedy."
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"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."
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"I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums."
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"Comedy keeps the heart sweet."
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"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form."
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"Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down."
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"When I look at comedy, it's all self-expression. I apply that same method to my music. I came up listening to N.W.A and Snoop. Like them, it's in me to express how I feel. You might like it or you might not, but I take that stand."
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"If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work."
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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."
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"I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour."
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"Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny."
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"Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]"
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