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Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
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I will blow your face clean off your face!
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!
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