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I had a lot of Ron DeSantis jokes ready, but Mickey Mouse beat the hell out of me, he got there first. – Americans Biden	Found on CNN 12 months ago
People are making public jokes about this. It’s not a joke, this is serious stuff. Please treat it as such. – Mark Suster	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In (new film ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’) there were a lot of old jokes in the script. We took them all out. – Harrison Ford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In him, I felt the energy of a father - a man to hug, to laugh with, to share in mischievous jokes and wild imagination, he was the perfect friend and support for me as a little girl. – Paris Smith	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don't feel like it's right that people can tell other people what they can and cannot say, if people don't want to support him … if people are offended by some of his transgender jokes, they don't have to support him. They don't have to watch the Netflix special. They don't have to buy tickets to their show. – Dani Zoldan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We’re going to truly miss him. From the smile, the jokes he made with all the officers. But we have great lasting memories of Officer Croom. – Meridian Police	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I don't have a bunch of s * about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I had like a whole show I wrote before this weekend, and I'm still kind of processing what happened, so at some point I'll talk about that s . And it'll be serious and it'll be funny, but right now I'm going to tell some jokes. – Chris Rock*	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The initial attacks that we face from the media and Big Tech came from this angle that we’re spreading misinformation, and we need to be fact checked, and it was really weird how they were treating these jokes so seriously and giving them a truth rating, that didn’t really work out too well for them, they actually faced a lot of backlash for that, they were mocked very heavily, so there seems to be this shift in strategy. We’re now, instead of focusing on the misinformative nature of our satirical claims, they’re focusing more on the fact that we’re punching down without jokes or aiming at the wrong targets. – Seth Dillon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative. – Seth Dillon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I prefer staying backstage, my husband is always on the forefront, while I feel more comfortable in the shade. I am not the life of the party, I do not like to tell jokes. It's not in my character. But I found reasons for myself in favor of publicity. One of them is the opportunity to attract people's attention to important social issues. At the same time, this does not concern the publicity of my children: I have not posted their photos on social networks before, and now I will not either. – Olena Zelenska	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Being the only Black representative in the group, even though I am only half-Black and being of Jamaican heritage, people kept throwing jokes, sideways jokes at me about' Cool Runnings,' Cool Runnings and,' You should go to the Olympics,'. – Benjamin Alexander	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I’m proud of my daughter because without her mom she’s [still] such a great kid and she does her best every day, she makes me laugh and smile and I embarrass her every day like most dads do. She does not like the dad jokes and there are certain rules we have where I’m banned from social media and I’m not supposed to say things and I’m not supposed to post things. It’s not cool to walk with her to school anymore, show up at the school dance and start dabbing or doing a dance that I think might be cool. But she’s funny and I’m proud of her. She’s a great kid. – Larry Birkhead	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've never been in that position before, that was kind of exciting for me. Zac Taylor always kind of jokes,' Hey, don't pretend like the headset goes out, so you can call your own plays.'. – Joe Burrow	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Being in the public eye as far as being on television or film or whatever it is, that’s going to be hard for him. I don’t think people are going to take him seriously, people who become the butt of jokes, of doing things as ridiculous and absurd as what allegedly happened, have a harder time working. – Danny Deraney	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script. When Eliza Dushku told me that she wasn't comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized, after reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza Dushku. – Michael Weatherly.Before	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As a trans person and a comedian, we mostly crack jokes about who we are and how we identify in my experience, and I'm only speaking for me, you can't ask for inclusion 24/7 and then conveniently want to be excluded because some truths are being told in a comedic fashion about your community. – Dave Chappelle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm a 40-year-old comedian and Black, transgender woman who grew up in the'80s and'90s, i couldn't care less about jokes being made at my expense. I grew up fearing my imminent murder and/or eternal damnation. What makes' The Closer' unacceptable is the intense gaslighting of multiple, vulnerable communities. – Dahlia Belle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
At the time I did those jokes, I genuinely thought them to be harmless, i was making fun of our enemy North Korea, and like most jokes, there was a ring of truth to them. – Jay Leno	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Those sexist jokes that just slip off the tongue around the coffee machine, that's where it starts, that's the small steps that create the environment where people feel that they can become violent and aggressive towards women and girls, so if we want to bring about change, we have to live that change and be that change. – Clive Efford	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They’ve replaced humor with anger and what’s called ‘clapter,’ they want people to clap about their opinions and not their jokes. – Greg Gutfeld	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’ll pair a rapper from Chicago with an Ohio farmer lady, and they work as a team and it’s quite funny to watch, there’s no politics, there’s no Trump jokes, there’s no Biden jokes. There are jokes about Congress in that generic sort of ‘they’re idiots’ type of thing. – Jay Leno	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When I do a gig in Utah and they’ll go, ‘Look, we don’t want any drug jokes, we don’t want any sex jokes, I go, ‘OK, I’ll take those out’ and I do something else. – Jay Leno	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are taking things one month at a time. We both know we really like each other and that we’re not interested in meeting anyone else, matt jokes that this season of the TikTok Bachelor is over. – Taylor Bier	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I got in trouble last yearbecause I was making some jokes. – Pete Davidson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

I had a lot of Ron DeSantis jokes ready, but Mickey Mouse beat the hell out of me, he got there first.

– Americans Biden

Found on CNN
12 months ago

People are making public jokes about this. It’s not a joke, this is serious stuff. Please treat it as such.

– Mark Suster

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In (new film ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’) there were a lot of old jokes in the script. We took them all out.

– Harrison Ford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In him, I felt the energy of a father - a man to hug, to laugh with, to share in mischievous jokes and wild imagination, he was the perfect friend and support for me as a little girl.

– Paris Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't feel like it's right that people can tell other people what they can and cannot say, if people don't want to support him … if people are offended by some of his transgender jokes, they don't have to support him. They don't have to watch the Netflix special. They don't have to buy tickets to their show.

– Dani Zoldan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re going to truly miss him. From the smile, the jokes he made with all the officers. But we have great lasting memories of Officer Croom.

– Meridian Police

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I don't have a bunch of s *** about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I had like a whole show I wrote before this weekend, and I'm still kind of processing what happened, so at some point I'll talk about that s ***. And it'll be serious and it'll be funny, but right now I'm going to tell some jokes.

– Chris Rock

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The initial attacks that we face from the media and Big Tech came from this angle that we’re spreading misinformation, and we need to be fact checked, and it was really weird how they were treating these jokes so seriously and giving them a truth rating, that didn’t really work out too well for them, they actually faced a lot of backlash for that, they were mocked very heavily, so there seems to be this shift in strategy. We’re now, instead of focusing on the misinformative nature of our satirical claims, they’re focusing more on the fact that we’re punching down without jokes or aiming at the wrong targets.

– Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative.

– Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I prefer staying backstage, my husband is always on the forefront, while I feel more comfortable in the shade. I am not the life of the party, I do not like to tell jokes. It's not in my character. But I found reasons for myself in favor of publicity. One of them is the opportunity to attract people's attention to important social issues. At the same time, this does not concern the publicity of my children: I have not posted their photos on social networks before, and now I will not either.

– Olena Zelenska

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Being the only Black representative in the group, even though I am only half-Black and being of Jamaican heritage, people kept throwing jokes, sideways jokes at me about' Cool Runnings,' Cool Runnings and,' You should go to the Olympics,'.

– Benjamin Alexander

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m proud of my daughter because without her mom she’s [still] such a great kid and she does her best every day, she makes me laugh and smile and I embarrass her every day like most dads do. She does not like the dad jokes and there are certain rules we have where I’m banned from social media and I’m not supposed to say things and I’m not supposed to post things. It’s not cool to walk with her to school anymore, show up at the school dance and start dabbing or doing a dance that I think might be cool. But she’s funny and I’m proud of her. She’s a great kid.

– Larry Birkhead

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've never been in that position before, that was kind of exciting for me. Zac Taylor always kind of jokes,' Hey, don't pretend like the headset goes out, so you can call your own plays.'.

– Joe Burrow

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Being in the public eye as far as being on television or film or whatever it is, that’s going to be hard for him. I don’t think people are going to take him seriously, people who become the butt of jokes, of doing things as ridiculous and absurd as what allegedly happened, have a harder time working.

– Danny Deraney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script. When Eliza Dushku told me that she wasn't comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized, after reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza Dushku.

– Michael Weatherly.Before

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As a trans person and a comedian, we mostly crack jokes about who we are and how we identify in my experience, and I'm only speaking for me, you can't ask for inclusion 24/7 and then conveniently want to be excluded because some truths are being told in a comedic fashion about your community.

– Dave Chappelle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm a 40-year-old comedian and Black, transgender woman who grew up in the'80s and'90s, i couldn't care less about jokes being made at my expense. I grew up fearing my imminent murder and/or eternal damnation. What makes' The Closer' unacceptable is the intense gaslighting of multiple, vulnerable communities.

– Dahlia Belle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At the time I did those jokes, I genuinely thought them to be harmless, i was making fun of our enemy North Korea, and like most jokes, there was a ring of truth to them.

– Jay Leno

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Those sexist jokes that just slip off the tongue around the coffee machine, that's where it starts, that's the small steps that create the environment where people feel that they can become violent and aggressive towards women and girls, so if we want to bring about change, we have to live that change and be that change.

– Clive Efford

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They’ve replaced humor with anger and what’s called ‘clapter,’ they want people to clap about their opinions and not their jokes.

– Greg Gutfeld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’ll pair a rapper from Chicago with an Ohio farmer lady, and they work as a team and it’s quite funny to watch, there’s no politics, there’s no Trump jokes, there’s no Biden jokes. There are jokes about Congress in that generic sort of ‘they’re idiots’ type of thing.

– Jay Leno

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When I do a gig in Utah and they’ll go, ‘Look, we don’t want any drug jokes, we don’t want any sex jokes, I go, ‘OK, I’ll take those out’ and I do something else.

– Jay Leno

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are taking things one month at a time. We both know we really like each other and that we’re not interested in meeting anyone else, matt jokes that this season of the TikTok Bachelor is over.

– Taylor Bier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I got in trouble last yearbecause I was making some jokes.

– Pete Davidson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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