Steven Wright quote: "When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
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If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
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A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
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I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
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Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo...
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I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.
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I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b...
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George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
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The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
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If God dropped acid, would he see people?
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,...
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I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of t...
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I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ...
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I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
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If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, d...
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I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
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I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an...
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I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
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I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
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A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
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Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be...
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It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
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I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
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Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
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I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'
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At one point he decided enough was enough.
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I thought I would be a guy on the radio.
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I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that w...
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Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.
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It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and ...
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I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because th...
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I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and g...
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I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-...
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I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
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So, do you live around here often?
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I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way thro...
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Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it beca...
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I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.
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I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing film...
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I haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11.
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I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.
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I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for thre...
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When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.
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Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really ex...
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It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
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I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I t...
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You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The...
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I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he di...
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I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.
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I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, ...
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalato...
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
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I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy ...
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OK, so what's the speed of dark?
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Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in Ja...
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I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking', but I don't have that much time.
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I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I...
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I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
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Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.
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If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere i...
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I invented the cordless extension cord.
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I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
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For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them f...
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that d...
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during...
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If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
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My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.
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I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be assoc...
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Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-g...
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When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to ...
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I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.
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There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really inte...
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I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi...
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I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I...
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I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and force...
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How young can you die of old age?
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I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
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I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.
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Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.
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I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistical...
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I'm going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.
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I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
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I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I&#...
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I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black...
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I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.
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If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
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It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.
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Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually...
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I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
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On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the othe...
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They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.
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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
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All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.
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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
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What a nice night for an evening.
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If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
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If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
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I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
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What's another word for Thesaurus?
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I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.
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If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts.
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It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
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My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant...
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
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My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right...
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I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
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If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
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I like to reminisce with people I don't know.
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I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
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I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You...
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where’s the self-help section?' She said if she t...
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My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.
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What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
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George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a ...
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Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go...
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I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
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Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.
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When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I ...
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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build...
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I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.
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My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
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I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!
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I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after...
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I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world......
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If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
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It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It'...
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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.
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I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.
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I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll c...
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My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov...
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When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'W...
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap...
STEVEN WRIGHT

You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows u...
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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps
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When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few m...
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What's another word for Thesaurus?
STEVEN WRIGHT

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
STEVEN WRIGHT

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
STEVEN WRIGHT

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
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I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the li...
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Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to...
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I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize
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The past week our bullpen threw a lot, especially with the doubleheaders in the (Rainbow) tournament...
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In terms of visits, we're probably going to wind up 3 to 5 percent ahead in visits and probably doub...
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The uncertainty is petrol prices,
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Our modelling suggest bond yields should rise in line with the US by at least 1 per cent. The X fact...
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Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. W...
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I've known Ian for a while. It's not about beating the best pitcher. He's still my buddy. I'll proba...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I spilled Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
STEVEN WRIGHT

It's a small world but I wouldn't want to paint it.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking," but I don't have that much time.
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I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote"
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If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is ma...
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Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even st...
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Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even ...
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When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never...
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It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Sponges grow in the ocean. This bothers me. How deep would it be if they didn't?
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Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big...
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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
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My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several...
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I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
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I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so...
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I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you�...
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I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out...
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Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
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I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving...
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It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, mayb...
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When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.

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