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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole w

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Id be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. – Lenny Bruce

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Take away the right to say “fuck” and you take away the right to say “fuck the government.” – Lenny Bruce

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Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously. – Arland Ussher

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But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted from a book like plums from a pudding. – Beatrix, “What to Read,” The Household, supplement to Michigan Farmer and State

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A joke is a very serious thing. – Winston Churchill

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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If its in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it. – Ivan Reitman

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