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He started becoming violent, he was very much anti-Semitic. He would say like all types of Jewish jokes. I thought he was joking at first and then I started to see seriousness in his comments. – Eric Valiente	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now my kids read the jokes to me and shake their heads when they see me laugh. – Sam Younis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Your ability to understand humor signals that you are part of a group, similar to how most groups of friends have in-jokes and idioms that only the group of friends will understand. – Nick Brody	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There are certain jokes that for sure have not aged well, but I think that's the nature of comedy, i think conceptually those movies are sound, and I think there's a reason they've lasted as far as people still watching and enjoying them today. Jokes are not things that necessarily are built to last. – Seth Rogen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If someone's trying to murder someone with a baseball bat and someone's yelling at that person to stop, is that a feud between the baseball bat wielder and the person yelling at the baseball bat wilder? Feud implies two people hitting each other with baseball bats. Ted Cruz is a fascist. He denies the reality of the election. His words caused people to die and I'm making jokes about it. Is that a feud? I don't know. To me, it doesn't seem like a feud. To me, it seems I'm pointing out the fact that he's a terrible man whose words have resulted in death. – Seth Rogen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The' Army Man' jokes got me my initial interview with Sam Simon and Matt Groening [ Groening ], which led to my first script assignment,' Bart the General,' but I wasn't actually hired to work on staff until I'd done three episodes. ' The Simpsons' didn't have enough money for a full-time writing staff until late in 1989. They've got enough now, of course. – John Swartzwelder	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Comedy writers. That was the audience, luckily, a lot of other people, both kids and adults, liked the same jokes we liked. – John Swartzwelder	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's ridiculous. It's -- Douglas Reese know, I make jokes. But I make jokes because I'm so angry. I have to laugh, to keep from crying. – John Lewis	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Because, we're taking big swings and they're hard jokes, when you don't hear any sound, it throws the timing off, the thing that the audience does is it is the plug that makes the circuit work. – Willie Geist	Found on CNN 3 years ago
(On his marathon live shows) You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox. – Ken Dodd	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
They email me some [ jokes ] in the morning and then I go through and I check them off and then write notes on additional things, i literally read it off piece of paper and just hope it sounds funny. I use a little soundboard app that I got two days ago and I push it. I sometimes don't know which one I'm pushing. – David Spade	Found on CNN 4 years ago
He always had a smile on his face -- he was always cracking jokes. – Eve Reynolds	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Another joke, and its just dead silent. This thing is just not translating at all. The more it happened, the funnier it got to Edward Norton and I. So we just start laughing. Were the aholes in the back laughing at our own jokes. The only ones laughing. – Brad Pitt	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I start writing immediately. Before I decide to do it, I have to go,' Have I got anything ? What's happened ? I write jokes and they're considered and I make sure they're bulletproof, nowadays, you've got to make sure they're bulletproof in 10 years' time, with people going through saying,' The Hollywood Reporter said this once, 10 years [ ago ].' Kevin Hart [ lost ] Kevin Hart job [ as Oscars host ] for 10-year-old tweets that Kevin Hart said Kevin Hart was sorry about and deleted at the time. So there's more pressure on making [ the jokes bulletproof ]. It's the world [ watching ]. This isn't me in a comedy club. – Ricky Gervais	Found on CNN 4 years ago
People were making jokes (before the attempt began). – Nirmal Purja	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I want to inspire generations to come, people were making jokes (before the attempt began). – Nirmal Purja	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
First boys are inundated by memes with subtly racist, sexist, and homophobic, anti-Semitic jokes and being kids, they don't see the nuance and they repeat and share, then they are shunned in school or socially. – Joanna Schroeder	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When she was born, all my friends said,' Oh, she looks Asian, she looks Asian,' we were cracking the jokes... but you just figure every baby, like, looks different when they're born. – Kristina Koedderich	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They surrounded us and started saying really aggressive stuff, things about sexual positions, lesbians and claiming we could kiss so they could watch us, to ease the situation I tried to make some jokes, like Chris wasn't understanding because she didn't speak English. She even acted as if she was sick... but they started throwing coins. The next thing I know Chris is in the middle of the bus and they are punching her. – Melania Geymonat	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
E40 posted a picture of himself and Drake on Saturday, saying SO IT BEGINS ! Drake had been criticized for some of the things he had been doing while attending the Raptors games against the Bucks in Toronto during the Eastern Conference Finals. The Toronto rapper was even trolled by Mallory Edens, the daughter of Bucks co-owner Mallory Edens. Mallory Edens wore a shirt with Drakes rival Pusha T on it during Game 5. But after the Raptors won the matchup, Drake fired back and made Mallory Edens Mallory Edens profile picture on Instagram. Its unclear whether Drake will attend The NBA Finals games in Oakland. Warriors coach Steve Kerr told reporters that Steve Kerr didnt think having the Scorpion rapper on the sidelines was a big deal. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Im not, Im not worried about Drake. I called him on his cell phone earlier... Mallory Edens just rolled her eyes, No more dad jokes please. – Steve Kerr	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
People very close to him told us that he feared he was pre-dementia, that he had changed. You watch Donald Trump in the late 1980s, even in the 90s, you watch him now, he is completely changed, can we talk about the media again doing their own self-diagnosis of the problem?Like, youre not allowed to make any jokes right now about Jerry Nadler having an issue, but people like Joe Scarborough are allowed to go on national television and say that people have told Joe Scarborough without actually naming anybody, that the president is pre-dementia. – Joe Scarborough	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I said, Well whos going to laugh at my jokes ? – Bruce Springsteen	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If you are asking why Donald Trump is bringing up Seth Meyers, it's because when Donald Trump attended the WHCD in 2011, Seth Meyers comically fileted Seth Meyers with jokes like. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
He is not, nor does he try to be, a good ol boy, he is not a back-pounder and doesnt tell funny jokes and have a beer with the boys. – Rex Early	Found on FOX News 4 years ago

He started becoming violent, he was very much anti-Semitic. He would say like all types of Jewish jokes. I thought he was joking at first and then I started to see seriousness in his comments.

– Eric Valiente

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now my kids read the jokes to me and shake their heads when they see me laugh.

– Sam Younis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Your ability to understand humor signals that you are part of a group, similar to how most groups of friends have in-jokes and idioms that only the group of friends will understand.

– Nick Brody

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are certain jokes that for sure have not aged well, but I think that's the nature of comedy, i think conceptually those movies are sound, and I think there's a reason they've lasted as far as people still watching and enjoying them today. Jokes are not things that necessarily are built to last.

– Seth Rogen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If someone's trying to murder someone with a baseball bat and someone's yelling at that person to stop, is that a feud between the baseball bat wielder and the person yelling at the baseball bat wilder? Feud implies two people hitting each other with baseball bats. Ted Cruz is a fascist. He denies the reality of the election. His words caused people to die and I'm making jokes about it. Is that a feud? I don't know. To me, it doesn't seem like a feud. To me, it seems I'm pointing out the fact that he's a terrible man whose words have resulted in death.

– Seth Rogen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The' Army Man' jokes got me my initial interview with Sam Simon and Matt Groening [ Groening ], which led to my first script assignment,' Bart the General,' but I wasn't actually hired to work on staff until I'd done three episodes. ' The Simpsons' didn't have enough money for a full-time writing staff until late in 1989. They've got enough now, of course.

– John Swartzwelder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Comedy writers. That was the audience, luckily, a lot of other people, both kids and adults, liked the same jokes we liked.

– John Swartzwelder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's ridiculous. It's -- Douglas Reese know, I make jokes. But I make jokes because I'm so angry. I have to laugh, to keep from crying.

– John Lewis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Because, we're taking big swings and they're hard jokes, when you don't hear any sound, it throws the timing off, the thing that the audience does is it is the plug that makes the circuit work.

– Willie Geist

Found on CNN
3 years ago

(On his marathon live shows) You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.

– Ken Dodd

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

They email me some [ jokes ] in the morning and then I go through and I check them off and then write notes on additional things, i literally read it off piece of paper and just hope it sounds funny. I use a little soundboard app that I got two days ago and I push it. I sometimes don't know which one I'm pushing.

– David Spade

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He always had a smile on his face -- he was always cracking jokes.

– Eve Reynolds

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Another joke, and its just dead silent. This thing is just not translating at all. The more it happened, the funnier it got to Edward Norton and I. So we just start laughing. Were the aholes in the back laughing at our own jokes. The only ones laughing.

– Brad Pitt

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I start writing immediately. Before I decide to do it, I have to go,' Have I got anything ? What's happened ? I write jokes and they're considered and I make sure they're bulletproof, nowadays, you've got to make sure they're bulletproof in 10 years' time, with people going through saying,' The Hollywood Reporter said this once, 10 years [ ago ].' Kevin Hart [ lost ] Kevin Hart job [ as Oscars host ] for 10-year-old tweets that Kevin Hart said Kevin Hart was sorry about and deleted at the time. So there's more pressure on making [ the jokes bulletproof ]. It's the world [ watching ]. This isn't me in a comedy club.

– Ricky Gervais

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People were making jokes (before the attempt began).

– Nirmal Purja

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I want to inspire generations to come, people were making jokes (before the attempt began).

– Nirmal Purja

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

First boys are inundated by memes with subtly racist, sexist, and homophobic, anti-Semitic jokes and being kids, they don't see the nuance and they repeat and share, then they are shunned in school or socially.

– Joanna Schroeder

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When she was born, all my friends said,' Oh, she looks Asian, she looks Asian,' we were cracking the jokes... but you just figure every baby, like, looks different when they're born.

– Kristina Koedderich

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They surrounded us and started saying really aggressive stuff, things about sexual positions, lesbians and claiming we could kiss so they could watch us, to ease the situation I tried to make some jokes, like Chris wasn't understanding because she didn't speak English. She even acted as if she was sick... but they started throwing coins. The next thing I know Chris is in the middle of the bus and they are punching her.

– Melania Geymonat

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

E40 posted a picture of himself and Drake on Saturday, saying SO IT BEGINS ! Drake had been criticized for some of the things he had been doing while attending the Raptors games against the Bucks in Toronto during the Eastern Conference Finals. The Toronto rapper was even trolled by Mallory Edens, the daughter of Bucks co-owner Mallory Edens. Mallory Edens wore a shirt with Drakes rival Pusha T on it during Game 5. But after the Raptors won the matchup, Drake fired back and made Mallory Edens Mallory Edens profile picture on Instagram. Its unclear whether Drake will attend The NBA Finals games in Oakland. Warriors coach Steve Kerr told reporters that Steve Kerr didnt think having the Scorpion rapper on the sidelines was a big deal. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Im not, Im not worried about Drake. I called him on his cell phone earlier... Mallory Edens just rolled her eyes, No more dad jokes please.

– Steve Kerr

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

People very close to him told us that he feared he was pre-dementia, that he had changed. You watch Donald Trump in the late 1980s, even in the 90s, you watch him now, he is completely changed, can we talk about the media again doing their own self-diagnosis of the problem?Like, youre not allowed to make any jokes right now about Jerry Nadler having an issue, but people like Joe Scarborough are allowed to go on national television and say that people have told Joe Scarborough without actually naming anybody, that the president is pre-dementia.

– Joe Scarborough

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I said, Well whos going to laugh at my jokes ?

– Bruce Springsteen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If you are asking why Donald Trump is bringing up Seth Meyers, it's because when Donald Trump attended the WHCD in 2011, Seth Meyers comically fileted Seth Meyers with jokes like.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He is not, nor does he try to be, a good ol boy, he is not a back-pounder and doesnt tell funny jokes and have a beer with the boys.

– Rex Early

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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