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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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Laughing
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Joke
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Jokes
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Laugh

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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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The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.
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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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If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.
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The second you realize you're not alienated, that makes you empowered.
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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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When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say Oh my god. Talk about it.
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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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Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
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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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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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Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.
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I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.
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Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.
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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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Just talk about the issues that are impacting you and your friends.
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Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.
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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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It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.
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You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.
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