People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

  • -- Ricky Gervais 里基·热尔维斯

人们混淆了笑话的主题和笑话的目标,而且他们很少是一样的。

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

为什么我们的记忆力好到可以记住发生在我们身上的最小的琐事,却不能回忆起我们对同一个人说过多少次?

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.

我的笑话,其实并不是笑话,有两场巡演,一场是表现出色的专辑巡演,另一场是表现出色的专辑巡演。

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

邻家女孩的形象是一种玩笑;多年来,我除了扮演一个黑暗的角色外,再也找不到其他的角色。

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.

这是我的剧院。在这里我可以一边唱歌,一边表演戏剧,一边做仰卧起坐。

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

没有一门学科老到不能说些新东西的地步。

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

当一门学科完全过时时,我们就把它作为必修课。