Moffat tries his hand at laughing, telling jokes, even dabbing.
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Would kids even like performers holding microphones telling jokes onstage?
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He was constantly telling jokes, but he was very charismatic.
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"We're telling jokes and remembering old times," Mr. McAliney said.
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He was always smiling, happy, telling jokes and waving to people.
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Twitter is aflame with reporters tweeting quotes and idiots telling jokes.
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I spent a few minutes with her talking and telling jokes.
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She never demanded comedians or "SNL" stop telling jokes about her.
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Is audience laughter as much of a performance as telling jokes?
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At that point we were telling jokes again, talking about it.
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"They were telling jokes and enjoying themselves," general manager Dave Matherne says.
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At night, Newman said Ford performed in vaudeville, singing songs and telling jokes.
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Billy was telling jokes about, I swear, like, Elaine Stritch and Jennifer Holliday.
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You'll find us there, doing what we're paid to: telling jokes and telling the truth.
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When telling jokes, he digs deep into ideas, but with her, he's guarded, coy, evasive.
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The program underscored the long tradition of comedians telling jokes as a form of social critique.
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But if you've ended up with a cruel Capricorn, they'll start telling jokes at your expense.
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"It was the first time Jay made money telling jokes," said "60 Minutes" producer Ruth Streeter.
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He started sharing Vine videos that usually included him doing stunts, telling jokes, and playing pranks.
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But ultimately, his reaction videos started as a joke — or rather, an exercise in telling jokes.
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And he exploits the unusual tension of a man from a modest, conservative culture telling jokes.
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In 1944, Bob Hope became one of the first performers, telling jokes at the Statler Hotel.
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Nearly three years later, Morgan is telling jokes in the standup special about his hard-won recovery.
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Most are developed by firms using Amazon's software toolkit, and range from telling jokes to ordering food.
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Our kids love being at the table together, talking about their day, singing songs and telling jokes.
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I rushed him to the hospital, where he made a glorious recovery, telling jokes and holding court.
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Schneider: Maybe this shouldn't have come as a surprise, but Bloomberg is not good at telling jokes.
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The wheel may land on telling jokes backward, incorporating audience participation or changing their voice, among other directives.
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Instead of just promising prayer, they started singing songs, telling jokes, or staging doorstep performances for their treats.
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It's that concept of humanity that makes comedy — telling jokes in person to people night after night — work.
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Stephen Colbert took a break from telling jokes on Thursday to offer a plea from behind his desk.
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He has been a popular character for decades there, livening up numerous establishments by singing and telling jokes.
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That's 22 solid minutes of Roiland essentially having arguments and telling jokes to dozens of different versions of himself.
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He's a very funny character and he began telling jokes, talking about adventures, funny stories, and I started laughing.
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Instead, she stood at the foot of her mom's bed every day telling jokes until she finally cheered up.
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It was a gathering place, where Silas Cayetano held court on weekends, settling neighborhood disputes, telling jokes, spinning stories.
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Robert Talk, 61, a former amusement park worker, said he enjoyed telling jokes and sharing gossip with the evacuees.
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And didn't Freud and Richard Pryor, among other geniuses, teach us that telling jokes is one way of revealing yourself?
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"I cannot stop telling jokes, and I think the paper is more fun for that," he said in an interview.
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These behaviors included telling jokes that disrespected women and girls or making disrespectful comments about a girl's body or makeup.
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Not only is Jackie Burke a veteran stand-up, but also there are several long scenes of him telling jokes.
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This Canadian-born stand-up has mastered the art of writing and telling jokes that lay out their premises to dry.
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Comedians telling jokes about our President are as American as apple pie, baseball and opposing Russian government interference in our elections.
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Think about that for a moment: A comedian was sentenced to hard labor for telling jokes that upset those in power.
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" He corrected himself: "I mean, 'If you should survive to 107, and you're still telling jokes and not stuck in heaven.
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Former Democratic Senator -- now an Independent -- Joe Lieberman talked of telling jokes with McCain on the balcony of hotels in Jerusalem.
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Cho had taken the stage and instead of telling jokes she discussed a time when she was raped and Garry Shandling's death.
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I just wanted to let all of the rapists know what I think of them, and then get back to telling jokes.
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The group of clients we have right now is on the quieter side so my coworker and I spend time telling jokes.
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Sources at the restaurant tell us Bourdain was extremely friendly with the staff, telling jokes, smiling and talking about food and wine.
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And there she is, sloshing around in her heels, most likely contagious, telling jokes to four people who could change her fate.
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They are distanced from the Monty Python-era spirit of "Walklyndon," as if dutifully telling jokes their father heard from his father.
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Saturday Night Live had mercy in the latest episode, skipping another tired Trumpworld cold open in favor of telling jokes about Democrats.
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In order to help customers feel comfortable talking to a robot, Pepper mimics human activities, like posing for selfies or telling jokes.
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Before each show, the man affectionately known as "Number One" insists on telling jokes to ensure everyone hits the stage with a smile.
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When clowns came into the clinic, telling jokes and passing out fake flowers and generally distracting women from their frenetic worrying, it helped.
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I walk back into the kitchen for seconds, and everyone is smiling and telling jokes while they serve food on the plastic plates.
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"Kevin would much rather stick to what he already does well, and that's telling jokes that resonate with people on a personal level."
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I just listen to what everybody is saying at the bar and come out with something a little sarcastic, it's not telling jokes.
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"He was in Philadelphia, a homeless guy telling jokes for money," explains Isaac, before giggling about the following verse about a sex shop.
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And as Mr. Fowler walked on, telling jokes about pizza that tasted like tomato paste and Ovenglow, no one needed to take it.
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"It was a mind-blower," he said, adding that it seemed like a maniac had accidentally stumbled onstage until he started telling jokes.
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After telling jokes to her husband, she gives him a high-five; and the special ends with him playing peekaboo, making her laugh.
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At night, she has a second career, livestreaming herself eating noodles or telling jokes in return for small donations from thousands of online viewers.
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That's part of the reason comics often don't release their first specials or albums until they've been telling jokes for many years, even decades.
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Her pulpit pursuits ultimately did not come to fruition, but in Esposito's estimation, telling jokes for a living isn't all that dissimilar to celebrating mass.
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That's where she feels most comfortable, most in control; as she has discovered, telling jokes involves a level of vulnerability far beyond crying on camera.
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New York Magazine's The Cut published the video Friday, showing Matthews telling jokes about Clinton before an interview in Iowa during the 85033 Democratic primary.
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Louis C.K. deserves to get trashed for telling jokes about Parkland survivors, which just proves Louis is kind of despicable ... so says fellow comedian Ron Funches.
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At the end of the day, recorded or not, or scripted or not, you're just a person telling jokes to a room full of 100 people.
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He still loved doing magic tricks and telling jokes out in the real world, which he visited regularly enough to affirm his status as an icon.
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The Spyro series stars the iconic purple dragon Spyro who travels through worlds of varied environments collecting treasures, defeating evildoers, rescuing his buddies, and telling jokes.
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Jessica Kirson, a muscularly funny comic who served as consultant for the movie, tried to fix the problem by telling jokes to rewarm up the crowd.
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We've been telling jokes for as long as we've had the ability to think about things, and as long as we can keep doing that, it's good.
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Maybe some young lady out there will see something in me that inspires her to want to own her voice and try her hand at telling jokes.
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To do stuff that was not just the camera being locked down, and recording people telling jokes and being funny — but being complicit visually in the comedy.
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Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo.
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When I met Verónica—a warm, exuberant woman in her mid-forties—she regaled me with stories of immigrant life in Georgia as though she were telling jokes.
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On Twitter and Tumblr, all one has to do is look through the tags #Somali and #Somalia to see Somalis posting news, bickering about politics, and telling jokes.
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I often find myself in rooms filled with people that have never seen someone like me — in their everyday lives, much less telling jokes at a comedy club.
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NETFLIX It's currently in vogue to fuse stand-up special and documentary, alternating the comics telling jokes onstage with footage from their lives, including interviews with family members.
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On Comedy Thanks to an aggressive push by streaming services like Netflix and Seeso, there have never been more new hours of comedians telling jokes than right now.
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I also like having nice candles and I like having my little things there, making a cup of tea and telling jokes and cooking and having a few drinks.
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"Every time he opens his mouth, he's on national TV, telling jokes and giving his message — so he's saved himself tens of millions of dollars doing that," I said.
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Over the past three years or so, the escalation of identity politics has got everyone thinking twice before laughing along with the well-to-do white dude telling jokes.
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"Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo," he said.
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Mr. Letterman, an unknown stand-up comedian then, appeared relaxed and confident telling jokes in a short set, then bantering in the guest chair next to Mr. Carson's desk.
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Mr. Michael speaks directly to the camera, sometimes pacing on a stage, at other times appearing in close-up, set against a black void, telling jokes followed by silence.
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The performers can be seen prancing down hospital corridors and in hospital rooms, singing, telling jokes, playing musical instruments, laughing, and connecting with patients, their families and staff members.
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Don Rickles, the acidic stand-up comic who became world-famous not by telling jokes but by insulting his audience, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles.
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If a black comedian wants to tell jokes about black people, he has a bit more of a right to do than a white person telling jokes about black people.
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From this vantage point, a new, sadder realization struck me: I no longer saw Paulina in her natural habitat, telling jokes or even crying with those she was close to.
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Spiegelman, who before he was appointed taxi commissioner was the producer of the long-running web series "Old Jews Telling Jokes," has a history of being supportive of Uber and Lyft.
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Now she has a part-time job doing maintenance and is a boisterous presence, telling jokes and advising friends, many of whom she met through a network of formerly incarcerated women.
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Sam Hoffman, who founded the website Old Jews Telling Jokes, which was adapted into a book and an Off Broadway show, built a franchise that might persuade you that they do.
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"Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo," said Gunn in his apology.
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He'd showed up unannounced, like he has several times since he admitted to masturbating in front of multiple women without their consent, and now he was telling jokes Randall didn't want to hear.
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The full statement can be read below: Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo.
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"Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo," Gunn said in a series of tweets.
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Adele is basically standing in a black dress and telling jokes/chatting to herself, but it is warm and comforting and lends her a familiarity that connects beyond the level of her personal lyrics.
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"Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo," he said in the first of five tweets.
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Beyond those music and productivity functions, the Invoke can be used to answer facts and trivia; provide weather forecasts, news updates, and traffic information; and provide some quick entertainment, such as telling jokes or poems.
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Preparing to perform comedy in front of hundreds (or thousands) of people and telling jokes that may or may not make them laugh is just as terrifying as getting hit in the face while boxing.
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For much more with Kondabolu, including his thoughts on working more personal material into his stand-up, on telling jokes about Trump, and on confronting white liberal hypocrisy through humor, listen to the full episode.
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Once you accept that you're going to spend your "retirement" dodging Nazis and theocrats in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, the thought of telling jokes to a room full of strangers just doesn't seem as frightening.
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You took all the steps every disgraced comedian takes to make a comeback, and now here you are, once again, raking in money, telling jokes under a spotlight, whether you've earned the right to or not.
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But make no mistake: She's a veteran student of her craft, honing her act since 1987 when she started telling jokes onstage as a Colorado college student in a contest before moving back to Los Angeles.
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Among other things, Patterson was accused of telling a victim of domestic abuse to stay with and forgive her husband, encouraging a rape victim not to come forward, and telling jokes in sermons that sexualized teenaged girls.
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She hung around long enough that the men stopped trying to impress her, so she could observe them in their natural states: comfortable around their own, telling jokes and lies, playing or fighting, and sometimes just being quiet.
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When telling jokes about abortion and Ebola (an obsession of hers), Ms. Friedman often slowly leans forward, flashing a just-us-friends-here smile, to test how far the audience will tolerate her pitch-black sense of humor.
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Gail: It was what everybody imagines an underdog campaign would be like — a few reporters and the candidate, driving around in a bus, telling jokes, talking about issues, and of course arguing about where to eat dinner that night.
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It seems that a lot of men are confusing being asked not to violate other people's sexual boundaries with being forbidden to participate in basic human activities such as dancing, dating, chatting, walking around, going to work, and telling jokes.
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The four-foot robot has large eyes, lifelike gestures and facial recognition technology that allows it to discern a guest's gender, approximate age and mood, and respond in intuitive ways to entertain guests by telling jokes and posing for selfies.
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A comedian telling jokes about portagees, pakes and buddhaheads could leave an audience convulsed without rancor, since none of his targets had ever oppressed any of the others, every family had roots in immigrant labor, and they were all related anyway.
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But with fewer videos than rivals (and its videos tend to be short form, like kids telling jokes), it may have a hard time grabbing kids' attention during screen time sessions in a world where YouTube and its many engaging stars already exist.
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The formal practice of telling jokes in front of an audience originated with the village spokesmen who host public events, spicing them up with wit and humorous anecdotes, according to Barclays Foubiri Ayakoroma, the former head of Nigeria's National Institute for Cultural Orientation.
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It also never quite found its ideal form: While Wilmore's openers were sharp, they often covered the same clips as "The Daily Show" had a half-hour earlier, and crosstalk-heavy panel conversations are the worst possible format for telling jokes or conveying information.
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Sandler got his start telling jokes in comedy clubs, but he rocketed to fame doing sketches on "Saturday Night Live," producing blockbuster albums dominated by two-person scenes in the tradition of the 2,000 Year Old Man and of course making broad, critically reviled comedies.
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The observatory, which he was visiting for the first time, was a place for him to reflect on what more he could do with his life now that he does not have the daily obligation of standing on a stage, telling jokes and talking to famous people.
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Among performers on the late shows: Dan Naturman, who'll return to "America's Got Talent" for this January's showcase of "The Champions," Sam Morril, whose voice could be heard telling jokes on the big screen in "Joker," and the longtime Cellar regulars Keith Robinson and Dave Attell.
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"Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo," Gunn wrote in a Twitter thread, shortly before taking a break from the site (his account currently remains active).
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That exclusion generally manifested in four ways: misjudgment (underestimating their intelligence, assuming they are more junior in the organization than they actually are); insults (badmouthing, telling jokes at their expense, talking behind their backs); avoidance (avoiding looking them in the eye or talking to them); and discomfort (staring, seeming nervous).
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"When you see somebody who's telling jokes that you didn't think you were ever going to get to see onstage, when you see a part of yourself reflected that you didn't know you wanted to see reflected, it's magical," says comedian Guy Branum, host of TruTV's Talk Show the Game Show.
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At a refueling stop in Cape Verde on his way home from an exhausting visit across Africa, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson walked through howling winds late Monday night toward the airport's V.I.P. terminal, where he pulled up a chair and started telling jokes to the reporters who had traveled with him.
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So while his weekends are for unwinding — spending quality time in Hell's Kitchen, where Mr. Wood lives with Salone Monet, his girlfriend, and their toddler son — early Sunday mornings often begin in a rental car, with him racing home from another state after a night of telling jokes to a room full of strangers.
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This month, New York Times columnist Gail Collins called it "the absolute best political event I ever covered": It was what everybody imagines an underdog campaign would be like—a few reporters and the candidate, driving around in a bus, telling jokes, talking about issues, and of course arguing about where to eat dinner that night.
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In brief remarks ahead of one-on-one meetings with President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, Mr. Trump bragged about his good relationships and said he thought an agreement was still possible, but he also made telling jokes about the serious tensions that have been all-too evident for weeks.
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He refused to resolve his conflicts of interests, and he passed legislation that helped his businesses; he clashed repeatedly with the judiciary; he was easily bored by details and long meetings; and he kept telling jokes about women and homosexuals; and he held what many described as lascivious (the precise term was "bunga bunga") parties at the prime minister's residence.
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Mr. Rock will be telling jokes he has developed from his recent global tour, which began exactly one year ago in Durham, N.C. The special is called "Chris Rock: Tamborine," a reference to a joke he tells about relationships during a part of his show where he delves into his divorce (Valentine's Day is a pointed choice of release date).
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"Old Baby" rests comfortably inside its womb, while pointedly drawing attention to it through its form, shifting settings every few minutes through deft edits (Jessica Yu directed the special with an assured and nimble touch), from Ms. Bamford telling jokes to her husband in their house, to a bunch of old friends on a suburban street, then to strangers in a bowling alley.
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And it ends a few feet away on a sound stage with Noah behind a desk, telling jokes to a live audience of more than 200 fans and more than 7 million viewers across the internet and TV. To capture all of that insanity, we sent along super talented New York–based photographer Meron Menghistab, who was able to capture some really intimate moments with Noah.
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