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• Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Children, Book

  "Mitch All Together". Live album by Mitch Hedberg, December 9, 2003.

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• If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

  Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. May 30, 1996.

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• I get all of my comedy from CNN.

  Rob Corddry

  Cnn

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• Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

  Mel Brooks

  Laughter, Laughing, Looks

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• Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

  Mel Brooks

  People, Doe, Chance

  "Springtime of Brooks' autumn years" by John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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• This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

  Horace Walpole

  Love, Failure, Thinking

  Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776

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• Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

  Shelley Berman

  Art, Form

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

  James L. Brooks

  Values

  "Adam Sandler Gets Serious". movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.

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• With comedy I can search for the profound.

  Dario Fo

  Profound, I Can

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• Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

  Angela Carter

  Funny, Humor, People

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.213, Random House

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• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  My Autobiography ch. 10 (1964)

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• I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

  George Carlin

  Memories, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Race

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• And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

  Jennifer Garner

  Giving, Scene, Commit

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• This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

  Nick Cannon

  People, Fans, Chance

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• We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

  Aldous Huxley

  Tragedy, Looks, Tragedy And Comedy

  1952 The Devils of Loudun, ch.11.

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• I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, People, Would Be

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• You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

  "You might be a redneck if". Book by Jeff Foxworthy, 1989.

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• A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Men, Gentleman

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• For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Death, Phones

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• I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Thinking, Should Have

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• Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Joints, Honest, Sometimes

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• I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Witty, Coffee

  "Eddie Izzard: Glorious". Video, www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

  Mo Rocca

  Hypocrisy, Fodder

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• Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

  Lita Grey

  Funny, Humor, Genius

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