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Humor Quotes by Tina Fey

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Tina Fey jokes about breaking rules with humor. She points out that women often turn to comedy as a safe way to bend social rules and let off steam. Her quips also play with wild ideas, from a reality show about terrorists’ nieces to winning a big comedy prize.

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If these two are tired of having sex with each other, what hope is there for the rest of us?

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In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant…

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Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.

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“A little tiny person with nothing to worry about running in circles, worried out of her mind.”

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At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully…

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The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

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Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

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

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"I can't believe you recently had a baby. How do you do it?" The baby starts to come down...and once that happens…

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Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs…

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In an interview, Paris Hilton said that of her and her sister, "People love to hate us. But when you know us,…

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Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built…

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If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the…

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When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for…

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At the request of the Catholic Church, a three-day sex orgy to be held near Rio de Janeiro was cancelled last Friday.…

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“To this day, all I know is there are between two and four openings down there and that the set up inside…

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“Right up until camera time, I was sweaty and green from having to touch my own eyeballs like that. If you've never…

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There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have…

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“The first rule of improvisation is AGREE. Always agree and SAY YES. When you're improvising, this means you are required to agree…

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“A few months after our friendly chat about kids (and my condescending remarks about New York), Mrs. Palin told conservative filmmaker John…

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“My dad looks like Clint Eastwood. His half-Scottish, half-German face in repose is handsome but terrifying. I searched the audience for him…

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We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or…

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“...Whenever someone says to me, 'Jerry Lewis says women aren't funny,' or 'Christopher Hitchens says women aren't funny,' or 'Rick Fenderman says…

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I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process. People lose their minds,…

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“I was ten years old. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day but I knew from commercials that one's…

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“When did you first feel like a grown woman and not a girl?” We wrote down our answers and shared them, first…

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“Most photographers have some kind of verbal patter going on when they shoot: "Great. Turn to me. Big smile. Less shark eyes.…

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“What were you thinking when we were holding hands diagonally?" I ask. Jeff says, "I was thinking, 'It's going to be so…

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“The second rule of improvisation is not only to say yes, but YES, AND. You are supposed to agree and then _add…

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“My Chocolate Mudslide is going down smooth when we hear the three bells. Bing. Bing. Bing. But instead of Dan Dan the…

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Wafah Dufour bin Laden, niece of Osama bin Laden has signed a contract to star in a reality show... called Skating with…

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Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

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Some people say, Never let them see you cry. I say, if youre so mad you could just cry, then cry. It…

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Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.

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Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

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“Thomas Jefferson - another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me.”

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In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

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I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

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“Maybe we women gravitate toward comedy because it is a socially acceptable way to break rules and a release from our daily…

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In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

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I was a very confident little kid.

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You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see…

[...] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me.

“To this day, all I know is there are between two and four openings down there and that the set up inside looks vaguely…

Wafah Dufour bin Laden, niece of Osama bin Laden has signed a contract to star in a reality show... called Skating with the Nieces…

It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you…

Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will…

“forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful. Ah ha ha. No. I’m totally messing with you. All…