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Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
Norm MacDonald
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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!
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I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
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I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.
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The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
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They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs.
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I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can't stay in the same place. People think you're a loser.
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Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
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I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking I'm terrible at acting I'm terrible at dealing with executives I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.
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I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.
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I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday Night Live - and that's why it gets a lot of heat, too. Obviously it gets criticism fairly, too. But a lot of it is because Lorne [Michaels] lets the audience decide and doesn't force them to laugh.
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The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.
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We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
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