"Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them."
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"Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed."
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"You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener."
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"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
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"If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again."
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"Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same."
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"My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me."
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"Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself."
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"Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke."
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"I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a lot of little jokes and asides that aren't necessarily part of the main story."
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"You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work in the production sense. Most of it is coming up with jokes."
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"... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes."
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"I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not."
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"The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself."
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"A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling."
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"I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny."
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"You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble."
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"Michael Gambon telling filthy jokes and Alan Rickman talking about scrambled eggs, just really normal things, and yet they're these amazingly, superb, famous actors. I feel so privileged to have been around them on the set of Harry Potter."
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"A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap."
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"That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes."
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