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Gags die, humor doesn't. -- Jack Benny
I'd feel guilty just doing gags. -- Damian Lewis
He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him. -- Tex Avery
I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them. -- Sia Furler
The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day. -- George A. Romero
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags. -- Arthur Smith
My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them. -- Roz Chast
A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags. -- Alexei Sayle
Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best. -- Nick Park
We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success. -- Neil Innes
If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy. -- Darren Boyd
I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better. -- Bill Plympton
If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way. -- Steve Coogan
I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing. -- Marcus Brigstocke
Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them. -- Ken Dodd
Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. -- Horace Walpole
I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation. -- Peter Sohn
You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim. -- Bruce Campbell
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh. -- Eddie Murphy
It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close. -- Ellen Hopkins
I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments. -- Noel Fielding

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