{"quotes":[{"text":"My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.","author":"Al Franken","tags":["loved","comedians","buddy "],"id":98297,"author_id":"Al+Franken"},{"text":"Comedians are people who embarrass themselves in style.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","comedians","embarrass","in-style","inspirational","people","stories","story","storytellers","storytelling","themselves","write","writers","writing","writing"],"id":105952,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"We can’t all be comedians, some people have to do the laughing.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["comedians","comedy","laughter"],"id":113979,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"This is the funniest book I’ve ever held in my hands. --Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical.","author":"Dave Barry","tags":["comedians","comedy","humor"],"id":118181,"author_id":"Dave+Barry"},{"text":"My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.","author":"Ron White","tags":["comedians","guy","guess "],"id":146814,"author_id":"Ron+White"},{"text":"Comrades, we are going to try to cheer you up, and our sense of humor will help us in this endeavor, although the phrase gallows humor has never seemed so logical and appropriate. The external circumstances are exactly in our favor. We need only to take a look at the barbed wire fences, so high and full of electricity. Just like your expectations.And then there are the watchtowers that monitor our every move. The guards have machine guns. But machine guns won’t intimidate us, comrades. They just have barrels of guns, whereas we are going to have barrels of laughs.You may be surprised at how upbeat and cheerful we are. Well, comrades, there are goods reasons for this. It’s been a long time since we were in Berlin. But every time we appeared there, we felt very uneasy. We were afraid we’d get sent to the concentration camps. Now that fear is gone. We’re already here.","author":"Rudolph Herzog","tags":["comedians","concentration-camps","dictatorship","germany","history","humor","jokes","nazi","third-reich","werner-flinck"],"id":150564,"author_id":"Rudolph+Herzog"},{"text":"Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["action","actors","actress","comedians","comedy","connections","curiousity","dark-humor","drama","good-will-hunting","heroes","horror","humor","irony","life","life-roles","lovers","monsters","perspective","philosophy","religion","roles","romance","shakespeare","teachers","theology","viewpoint","villians","worldsuck","writing"],"id":213738,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.","author":"Demetri Martin","tags":["comedians","demetri-martin","funny","games","helping-others","humor","shot","video-games"],"id":227324,"author_id":"Demetri+Martin"},{"text":"People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["ability","able","aphorism","aphorisms","bless","blessed","blessing","blessings","comedian","comedians","comedy","comic","comics","compensate","compensation","gift","gifted","gifts","humor","humour","insight","insightful","insights","intellect","intellectual","intellectuals","intelligent","profound","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","talent","talented","talents","unable","untalented","wisdom","wise"],"id":241407,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Finally, my watchers had to fess up. In embarrassed and genuinely polite tones, they said they had no other choice but to arrest me. Then they accompanied me to the prison across the way. As I entered, an extremely tall SS man leapt in front of me and asked: “Do you have any weapons?” “Why?” I responded. “Do I need any?","author":"Rudolph Herzog","tags":["comedians","dictatorship","germany","history","humor","jokes","nazi","third-reich","werner-flinck"],"id":262553,"author_id":"Rudolph+Herzog"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}