Rodney Dangerfield, born Jacob Cohen, was a legendary American comedian and actor known for his self-deprecating humor and trademark catchphrase “I don’t get no respect.” Rising to fame in the 1960s, Dangerfield’s comedy often revolved around his struggles with life, marriage, and his perceived lack of respect from others. He gained widespread recognition with his stand-up routines, television appearances, and memorable film roles in comedies like “Caddyshack” and “Back to School.” Dangerfield’s unique delivery and ability to turn personal insecurities into universal laughs endeared him to audiences worldwide. Despite his humorous persona, he battled personal demons, including struggles with depression and addiction. However, his comedic legacy remains indelible, influencing generations of comedians and earning him a permanent place in the pantheon of comedy greats. Rodney Dangerfield’s enduring impact on the world of comedy ensures that he will always be remembered and revered for his comedic brilliance.

Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

1. “Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.”
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2. “Better to keep quiet and let people think you’re an idiot than speak up and confirm it.”
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3. “Comedy is a camouflage for depression.”
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4. “Life is full of temporary situations, ultimately ending in a permanent solution.”
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5. “I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they’re the last to know.”
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6. “My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.”
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7. “My problem is that I appeal to everyone that can do me absolutely no good.”
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8. “Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire.”
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9. “I say ‘no’ to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, ’no.”
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10. “Everyone says that looks don’t matter, age doesn’t matter, money doesn’t matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who’s broke.”
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11. “When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn’t even look for me.”
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12. “I’ve never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.”
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13. “I’m sitting on top of the world, and I’ve got hemorrhoids.”
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14. “When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I’m gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark…”
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15. “I don’t get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.”
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16. “With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.”
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17. “My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.”
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18. “I can’t get no respect.”
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19. “My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.”
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20. “I figured out I’m bisexual. I have sex twice a year.”
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21. “I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.”
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22. “My ex-wife is a water sign and I’m an earth sign. Together we made mud.”
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23. “I asked my wife if she enjoys a cigarette after sex and she said “No, one drag is enough”.”
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24. “I was making love to my wife the other night, I looked up. She was on the phone.”
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25. “For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.”
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26. “My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.”
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27. “I can’t figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.”
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28. “I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn’t going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.”
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29. “Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid!”
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30. “The shape I’m in, I could donate my body to science fiction.”
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31. “When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn’t been a boy I wouldn’t have had anything to play with.”
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32. “Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.”
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33. “I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.”
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34. “When it comes to sex, at my age I like threesomes. In case one of us dies.”
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35. “At Christmas time we couldn’t afford tinsel, so we’d wait till grandpa sneezed.”
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36. “My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.”
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37. “I went to look for a used car and found my wife’s dress in the back seat.”
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38. “I knew a girl so ugly that she was known as a two-bagger. That’s when you put a bag over your head in case the bag over her head breaks.”
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39. “Life’s a short trip. You’ll find out.”
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40. “My wife says 90% of sex occurs between the ears. But I need a girl who can blow more just my mind.”
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41. “I’m not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.”
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42. “I have three kids, one of each.”
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43. “Do ya remember the first time you had sex? I do, and boy, was I scared! I was alone!”
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44. “You know you’re old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.”
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45. “I told my kids, “Someday, you’ll have kids of your own.” One of them said, “So will you.””
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46. “I was making love to this girl and she started crying. I said, “Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?” She said, “No, I hate myself now.””
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47. “I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.”
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48. “With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.”
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49. “My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog’s bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.”
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50. “My wife gives good headache.”
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51. “My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg.”
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52. “If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.”
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53. “When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something.”
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54. “Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”
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55. “Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.”
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56. “If sex is a pain in the ass, then you’re doing it wrong.”
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57. “I’m taking Viagra and drinking prune juice – I don’t know if I’m coming or going.”
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58. “With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we’ll never see each other!”
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59. “When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back.”
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60. “My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.”
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61. “I don’t care how rich and successful a man is. He’s nothing without an education.”
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62. “My wife and I keep fighting about sex and money. I think she charges me too much.”
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63. “My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful – never made me breakfast once. I don’t want to get started. One story is worse than another.”
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64. “And my girlfriend, she’s FAT! How fat? She’s so fat she wears two watches-one for each time zone!”
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65. “I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.”
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66. “My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.”
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67. “When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”
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68. “In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.”
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69. “I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.”
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70. “I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn’t see the mouse trap.”
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71. “Never tell your wife she’s bad in bed. She’ll go out and get a second opinion.”
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72. “I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.”
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73. “One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.”
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74. “Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it’s different when I open the door the kids hand me candy.”
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75. “I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.”
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76. “I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
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77. “One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I’ll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.”
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78. “My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he’s in the fruit section.”
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79. “I’ll tell ya, my wife and I, we don’t think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!”
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80. “I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
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81. “My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill.”
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82. “I’ve learned to control everything. I don’t get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That’s life. What good is it to get angry?”
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83. “My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.”
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84. “With sex my wife thinks twice before she turns me down. Yeah, once in the morning and once at night.”
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85. “I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.”
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86. “I’m a downer. I’ve been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.”
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87. “My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.”
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88. “I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.”
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89. “If things go right, I’ll be there about a week, and if things don’t go right, I’ll be there about an hour and a half!”
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90. “Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.”
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91. “A girl phoned me the other day and said, ‘Come on over. There’s nobody home.’ I went over. Nobody was home.”
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92. “My wife and I have Olympic sex. Once every four years.”
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93. “I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.”
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94. “When we got married my wife told me I was one in a million. I found out she was right.”
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95. “My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.”
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96. “I walked in on my wife and the milkman, the first thing she says is “don’t tell the butcher”!”
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97. “She was old too, when she went to school they didn’t have history.”
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98. “What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!”
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99. “I tell ya, it’s tough to save a buck. Right now I’m supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.”
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100. “With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, “How can I get my kite in the air?” He told me to run off a cliff.”
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101. “My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.”
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102. “Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn – Prancer and Dancer – they dropped off a little something.”
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103. “My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.”
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104. “He who laughs last didn’t get it in the first place.”
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105. “When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.”
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106. “I tell ya, my wife’s a lousy cook. After dinner, I don’t brush my teeth. I count them.”
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107. “My mother used to rock me – and she used big rocks.”
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108. “Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.”
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109. “What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.”
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110. “You take care and I hope I’ll run into you – when I’m driving.”
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111. “I told my dentist I want a tooth to match the others. He gave my one with four cavities.”
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112. “I am the world’s oldest teenager. I’ve never lost my youthful attitude.”
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113. “I’ll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.”
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114. “Never guess your wife’s size. Just buy anything marked petite and hold on to the receipt.”
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115. “Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, “Where’d you get the pig?” Guy says, “This is a duck.” Bartender says, “I was talking to the duck.””
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116. “It’s lonely on the top when there’s no one on the bottom.”
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117. “We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.”
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118. “When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, “We want five thousand dollars or you’ll see your kid again.””
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119. “Steak and sex, my favorite pair. I get them both very rare.”
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120. “During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me from a hotel.”
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121. “At my age I’m envious of a stiff wind.”
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122. “My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.”
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123. “My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.”
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124. “They say love thy neighbor as thy self, what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?”
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125. “A hooker once told me she had a headache.”
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126. “My wife has to be the worst cook. In my house, we pray after we eat.”
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127. “Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.”
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128. “I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.”
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129. “At Christmas time I sat on Santa’s lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !”
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130. “When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me.”
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131. “Hey, did somebody step on a duck?”
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132. “I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, “Wait til it gets warmer.””
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133. “Group sex, are you kidding, I had group sex – my wife screwed in front of the jury.”
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134. “Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.”
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135. “She failed her drivers test. She couldn’t get used to the front seat. It took her four lessons to learn to sit up.”
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136. “One day as I came home early, I saw a man jogging naked. I said to the guy, ‘Hey, buddy, why are you doing that?’ He said, ‘Because you came home early.’”
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137. “I’m not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.”
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138. “I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”
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139. “My wife has cut our lovemaking down to once a month, but I know two guys she’s cut out entirely.”
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140. “I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.”
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141. “I went to a gay bar, they wanted proof of sex so I showed them, they said it wasn’t enough.”
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142. “With my doctor, I don’t get no respect. I told him I want a vasectomy. He said with a face like mine, I don’t need one.”
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143. “My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!”
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144. “My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.”
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145. “We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.”
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146. “I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.”
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147. “I told my doctor, “I’ve swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills” and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.”
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148. “Marriage… it’s not a word, it’s a sentence.”
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149. “In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.”
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150. “It’s great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who’s bald.”
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