All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.


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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
GEORGE WILL
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through t...
GEORGE WILL
Joy comes from using your potential.
WILL SCHULTZ
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
WILL ROGERS
To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
WILL CARLETON
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, t...
WILL CARLETON
The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of busi...
WILL CARLETON
Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the ga...
WILL MCDONOUGH
I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious...
WILL SMITH
Never trust a duck.
WILL HERONDALE
Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
WILL ROGERS
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
WILL SELF
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committ...
GEORGE WILL
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
WILL ROGERS
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS
I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find t...
WILL HOBBS
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
WILL ROGERS
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
WILL ROGERS
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
WILL ROGERS
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the q...
WILL DURANT
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
WILL ROGERS
Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
WILL ROGERS
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
WILL ROGERS
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
WILL ROGERS
I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth somet...
WILL CHAMPION
Someone. Everyone. Anyone. No-one. One. One can't be everyone, but there isn't more than one everyon...
WILL ADVISE
Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
WILL ROGERS
I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.
WILL POULTER
Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of red...
WILL ADVISE
I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means o...
WILL ADVISE
In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
WILL ROGERS
Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
WILL ROGERS
The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
WILL ROGERS
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
WILL ROGERS
I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
WILL ROGERS
No party is as bad as its leaders.
WILL ROGERS
Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
WILL ROGERS
The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each part...
WILL ROGERS
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
WILL ROGERS
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
WILL ROGERS
The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
WILL ROGERS