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" We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound. "
John Oliver
How
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" Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back. "
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" There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled. "
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" It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them. "
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" I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have. "
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" People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character. "
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" People are friendlier in New York than London. "
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" I feel non-stop Brit shame! "
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" If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion. "
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" I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. "
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" I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse. "
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" If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences. "
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" Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go. "
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Than
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" The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not. "
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