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" Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at. "
Steven Wright
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" I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual. "
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" It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature. "
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" I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.' "
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" What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny. "
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" My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time. "
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" They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic. "
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" I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there. "
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" I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. "
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" I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. "
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" If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? "
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" It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. "
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" If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey? "
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" Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. "
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" I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. "
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" My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about. "
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" Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. "
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" My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. "
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" My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going. "
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" When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre. "
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" I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. "
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" One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him. "
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" If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments. "
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" I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.' "
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