Tom Stoppard: There are certain sorts of jokes which have...

Quote	There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny. Copy
Author	Tom Stoppard
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Quote: I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
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Author:
Barbara Walters
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I was the kind...

Quote: What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.
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Anthony Holden
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What was funny if...

Quote: It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
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Stephen Leacock
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It is to be...

Quote: Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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Jules Renard
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Laziness is nothing more...

Quote: I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.
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Mila Kunis
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I think that certain...

Quote: My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.
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Author:
Kevin Hart
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Funny

My mum passing away...

Quote: It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.
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Author:
Matt Lauer
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It usually takes two...

Quote: I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
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Gene Wilder
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Funny

I write funny. If...

Quote: A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.P. J. O'Rourke
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P. J. O'Rourke
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A lot of newspaper...

Quote: I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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Walt Disney
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I love Mickey Mouse...

Quote: I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.
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Denis Leary
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I write what I...

Quote: It's funny because I want my teeth to be, like, neon 'Real Housewives' white, but mine have stopped taking to teeth whitening. When I talk to my dentist, I'm like, 'They can be that white,' and he's like, 'Veneers can be that white.'Christine Teigen
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Chrissy Teigen
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It's funny because I...

Quote: I definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends.
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Abbi Jacobson
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I definitely started to...

Quote: I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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Jack Benny
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I don't deserve this...

Quote: Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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Yogi Berra
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Even Napoleon had his...

Quote: There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.
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Bo Burnham
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There's only one rule...

Quote: I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.
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Chance The Rapper
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I used to be...

Quote: A rich man's joke is always funny.
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Thomas Edward Brown
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A rich man's joke...

Quote: It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.
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Chrissy Teigen
Category:
Funny

It's so funny because...

Quote: I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.
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Emmitt Smith
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I was going through...

Quote: Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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Mark Twain
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Go to Heaven for...

Quote: I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.
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Rihanna
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I'd love to date...

Quote: You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm.
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Guillermo del Toro
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You cannot dictate what...

Quote: There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
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Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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There is nothing in...

Quote: You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.
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Chevy Chase
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You could knock my...

Quote: An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Don Marquis
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An idea isn't responsible...

Quote: One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Samuel Johnson
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One of the disadvantages...

Quote: There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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Cameron Boyce
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Funny

There is always something...

Quote: There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'
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Author:
Todd Phillips
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Funny

There's a darkness under...

Quote: Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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P. G. Wodehouse
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Memories are like mulligatawny...

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