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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Tina Fey

Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.
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Actual Convert Gay People Thinking Witnesses Witty
I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did – Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.
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Bed Birth Chic Christmas Guarantee People Prefer Retro Spend
Thomas Jefferson-another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me. This was my problem in a nutshell. To get some play in Charlottesville, you had to be either a Martha Jefferson or a Sally Hemings.
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Another Boy Boys Country Gorgeous Interested People Person Play Problem White
For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs.
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Bills Inspirational Laugh Laughing Real Show Sketch Thought
Seriously, I’ve just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.
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Bad Ecveryonbe Feel Fraud Realize Trying
I can’t possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody’s business and I’ll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.
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Baby Business Nobody Poisble Regret Ruin Second Take Time Unless Do
MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure?
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Accusatory Applies Class Constantly Eye Look Make Statement Voice Witty
The arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.
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Achieve Arm Athlete Closet Country Doll Made People Person President Scientist
When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.
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Autistic Coworker Emotion Person Picture Recognize Struggle Taught Worst
I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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Bar High People Start Time
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
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Boss Case Good Mean People Talent Top Management Way Witty
A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.
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Baby Boss Determine Medical Rectal School Study Thermometer Way
Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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Answer Difficult Itself Present Sometimes Stail
In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant Irish people.
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Beer Drink Funny Good Liver Party Report Sorry
It’s the same reason I don’t get Hooters. Why do we need to enjoy chicken wings and boobies at the same time? Yes, they are a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. And so are boobies. But why at the same time?
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Beautiful Boodies Chicken Enjoy Hooter Need Reason Same Time Wing Wings
My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.
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Answer Apple Cauldron Fortune Good Juicy Mother Parent Poison Same Standard Work

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