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I think when I was young, let...

I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.

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I've run into people in my li...

I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating.

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In my banjo show with the Ste...

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

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I like the idea that one thin...

I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.

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I'm tired of wasting letters ...

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

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Love is a promise delivered a...

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

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I like a woman with a head on...

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

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No matter how many times peop...

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

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What is comedy? Comedy is the...

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

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I believe entertainment can a...

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

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I realized that comedians of ...

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

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I'm for the Wall Street Occup...

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

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Don't have sex man. It leads ...

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

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You want to be a bit compulsi...

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

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You know what your problem is...

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

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Dinosaurs did not walk with h...

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

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I was very interested in vaud...

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

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I think I meant that, given t...

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

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I would get records by Earl S...

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.

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Chaos in the midst of chaos i...

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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