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If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

Barry Humphries

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don’t feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It’s worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.
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Comedian People Thinking
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Country Sheep Thinking
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Mother Night Party
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Bad Chic Little People Unhygienic
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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Harbor Nature Pearls
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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Country Funny Humor
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Humor Laughing Memorable
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
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Friendship Funny Mom
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

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