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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

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
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Audience Cress Down Funny Humor Lady Laugh Like Man Men Old Push Start
Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!
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Arm Change Educate Energy Nothing Rock Year
In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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Attempt Decision Easier History Myself Thing Worst
I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.
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Confidence Disproportionate Funny Look Parent Raise Thank
My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
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Ability Acne Anxiety Chin Good Turn Witty
I hire people that are good, and aren’t crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.
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Asshole Crazy Good Much People Take Time
Whatever the problem – be part of the solution
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Part Problem Solutions Whatever
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
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Country Funny Government Humor Include Interim Job Minister Set Whom Women
I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, ‘Yeah, I’m not cool enough for the West Village.’
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Accept Country Live Part Pick Think
In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.
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Bomb Dog Feel Late Order Purchase Safer Sniff Too
My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don’t take myself too seriously.
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Myself Seriously Take Work
Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
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Adorable Baby Blame Creature Fart Humor
I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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Action Class Country First Make People Place Statement Voice
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
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Adjective Blorfit Excite Little Mean Mostly Stress Witty
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
An acting teacher once told me, ‘Greet everything with yes… Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.’
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Acting Everything Motivation Moving Teacher Told Yes

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

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