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Frank Carson Comedian
Humor

"A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says: "Yes, three months!""

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Frank Carson Comedian
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"My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror.""

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"It used to be cars had cool names: Dart, Hawk, Fury, Cougar, Firebird, Hornet, Mustang, Barracuda. Now we have Elantra, Altima, Acura, Lumina, Sentra, Corolla, Maxima, Tercel. Further proof that America has lost its edge."

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Fred Allen Comedian, Actor
Humor

"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk."

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Fred Allen Comedian, Actor
Humor

"Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year."

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Fred Allen Comedian, Actor
Humor

"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference."

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Fred Allen Comedian, Actor
Humor

"Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything."

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
Humor

"That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone."

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
Humor

"I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went, 'Wow, it's not me!'"

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Humor

"For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger."

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