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Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.

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Lizz Winstead
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 5
Comedian
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.
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You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.
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The second you realize you're not alienated, that makes you empowered.
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We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.
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Nowadays everybody's a feminist - male, female, trans. Gender's so passé they don't even care anymore. They know what equal rights are, they know what it's about, and everybody is standing toe-to-toe strong about it and really fighting.
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I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it.
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People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.
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There are people that say you should never use humor to talk about anything that's important or hard, and since I don't believe that, at some point there has to be a level of agree to disagree.
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North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.
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By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?
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Since we are made up of comedians and filmmakers and writers and improvisers, we have the unique opportunity to bring joy to people who are sometimes buried in their own lives or are subjected to the bullshit that clinic workers are subjected to every day.
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In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.
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By laughing, it helps take our power back.
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One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.
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There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.
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If you want to effect change, start small.
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It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.
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We live in a nation where corporations are people.
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The fact is, there's no such thing as The Age of Abstinence.
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The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.
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