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I would pull Hesham Modamani arm forward and just start making jokes in the water, when you are in pain the only thing you can do is laugh. – Feras Abukhalil	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It’s hard to look at those clips, it feels like just yesterday we were all sitting here and she was making jokes about him and her. – Hoda Kotb	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Look, kid. Three jokes. First joke. repeat it. – Jerry Orbach	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead. Because the reality is, I can take it, but for the thousands of kids out there coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn't have to take it. – Caitlyn Jenner	Found on CNN 8 years ago
For those of us lucky enough to get to know Rocco, we were blessed, he gave the best advice, told the best and dirtiest jokes and was the first to give you a hug and kiss when it was needed. To know Roc was to love Roc. He will be missed greatly. There is a little less magic in the world today. Rest in peace, 'Pops.' Love and miss you madly. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl, i would never, never think that it was funny to use a 14-year-old girl as a joke like this, for God's sake. – David Letterman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It tells you about the president himself, presidents can hire funny speechwriters, but for the jokes to come off well, they have to really be reflective of the president's personality. Bush, in private and in public, had a self-mocking personality, self-deprecating, full of humor. – Ari Fleischer	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's kind of a sad way I got there though, being shamed into it, what else is it when you have two boyfriends in one year and everyone's calling you boy crazy, making jokes about you at awards shows? That's public humiliation. And I don't think its fair. – Taylor Swift Besties	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There's always lots of horsing around and sort of practical jokes and that's all there really was to it, ...I realized she had actually taken offence because it was all in the context of a bit of banter that was going on and so I obviously immediately apologized for that. – John Key	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I've spent all my career in Hollywood and have NEVER been arrested once, i fly in to Oakland County 2 resolve issues and u guys got jokes? – Actor Darius McCrary	Found on CNN 9 years ago
For a while, I had to wait until it really got into me like 'OK dude, this is real. Nobody's playing jokes on you. This is the real deal,'. – Jackie Irving	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Obviously, they were disappointed that their bill didn't pass, but it was just the manner in which they say the bill was debated, when they saw people stand up and say these just appalling things, that (the abortion reference) was probably less than the gentlemen who stood up and made jokes. That was almost more upsetting to them because they understood those references. Why didn't they take us seriously? Why were people laughing? – Principal Mark Deblois	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The fact that police officers and municipal court officials are using their public emails to tell racial jokes, that just reeks of arrogance and ignorance, it's astounding. They think they are untouchable. The taxpayers have been paying for that racial bias. – Ferguson Committeewoman Patricia Bynes	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We were giggling at women-only jokes, i'm always wearing my mom hat, my wife hat, my work hat. – Nicole Reitter	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
He had a whimsical, fey sense of humor and he brought a lot to 'Laugh-In' in the way of thoughts, words and jokes. – George Schlatter	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Better to have an authentic, interesting conversation and have the show be a little quieter than just setting up jokes that at the end of the day nobody cares about, that, I'm not interested in. I'd rather be scared by something somebody says. – Larry Wilmore	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Everybody jokes about Reid and his nasty habit of hanging up the phone as soon as he's done with his end of the conversation, but the president's not much better, there's not a lot of idle chitchat. – Jim Manley	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Kids love my knock-knock jokes, but after about 400 of them, parents hate me. – Rob Teigen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There aren’t any joke-telling Mozart's. You don’t have three year olds who can tell great jokes because they haven't reached that development stage yet. – Peter McGraw	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Under all those smiles, jokes and laughs is a whole different person... – Anonymous	added by anonymous 9 years ago
We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes. That’s a showbiz term for “Add sugar to”. – Mitch Hedberg	added by anonymous 9 years ago
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. – Fred Allen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones. – Samuel Beckett	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before. – Frank Dane	added by anonymous 10 years ago

I would pull Hesham Modamani arm forward and just start making jokes in the water, when you are in pain the only thing you can do is laugh.

– Feras Abukhalil

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It’s hard to look at those clips, it feels like just yesterday we were all sitting here and she was making jokes about him and her.

– Hoda Kotb

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Look, kid. Three jokes. First joke. repeat it.

– Jerry Orbach

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead. Because the reality is, I can take it, but for the thousands of kids out there coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn't have to take it.

– Caitlyn Jenner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For those of us lucky enough to get to know Rocco, we were blessed, he gave the best advice, told the best and dirtiest jokes and was the first to give you a hug and kiss when it was needed. To know Roc was to love Roc. He will be missed greatly. There is a little less magic in the world today. Rest in peace, 'Pops.' Love and miss you madly.

– Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl, i would never, never think that it was funny to use a 14-year-old girl as a joke like this, for God's sake.

– David Letterman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It tells you about the president himself, presidents can hire funny speechwriters, but for the jokes to come off well, they have to really be reflective of the president's personality. Bush, in private and in public, had a self-mocking personality, self-deprecating, full of humor.

– Ari Fleischer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's kind of a sad way I got there though, being shamed into it, what else is it when you have two boyfriends in one year and everyone's calling you boy crazy, making jokes about you at awards shows? That's public humiliation. And I don't think its fair.

– Taylor Swift Besties

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There's always lots of horsing around and sort of practical jokes and that's all there really was to it, ...I realized she had actually taken offence because it was all in the context of a bit of banter that was going on and so I obviously immediately apologized for that.

– John Key

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I've spent all my career in Hollywood and have NEVER been arrested once, i fly in to Oakland County 2 resolve issues and u guys got jokes?

– Actor Darius McCrary

Found on CNN
9 years ago

For a while, I had to wait until it really got into me like 'OK dude, this is real. Nobody's playing jokes on you. This is the real deal,'.

– Jackie Irving

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Obviously, they were disappointed that their bill didn't pass, but it was just the manner in which they say the bill was debated, when they saw people stand up and say these just appalling things, that (the abortion reference) was probably less than the gentlemen who stood up and made jokes. That was almost more upsetting to them because they understood those references. Why didn't they take us seriously? Why were people laughing?

– Principal Mark Deblois

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The fact that police officers and municipal court officials are using their public emails to tell racial jokes, that just reeks of arrogance and ignorance, it's astounding. They think they are untouchable. The taxpayers have been paying for that racial bias.

– Ferguson Committeewoman Patricia Bynes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We were giggling at women-only jokes, i'm always wearing my mom hat, my wife hat, my work hat.

– Nicole Reitter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He had a whimsical, fey sense of humor and he brought a lot to 'Laugh-In' in the way of thoughts, words and jokes.

– George Schlatter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Better to have an authentic, interesting conversation and have the show be a little quieter than just setting up jokes that at the end of the day nobody cares about, that, I'm not interested in. I'd rather be scared by something somebody says.

– Larry Wilmore

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Everybody jokes about Reid and his nasty habit of hanging up the phone as soon as he's done with his end of the conversation, but the president's not much better, there's not a lot of idle chitchat.

– Jim Manley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Kids love my knock-knock jokes, but after about 400 of them, parents hate me.

– Rob Teigen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There aren’t any joke-telling Mozart's. You don’t have three year olds who can tell great jokes because they haven't reached that development stage yet.

– Peter McGraw

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Under all those smiles, jokes and laughs is a whole different person...

– Anonymous

added by anonymous
9 years ago

We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes. That’s a showbiz term for “Add sugar to”.

– Mitch Hedberg

added by anonymous
9 years ago

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

– Fred Allen

added by anonymous
10 years ago

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

– Samuel Beckett

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

– Frank Dane

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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