I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.
I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one some day.
Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You start to have inside jokes and gallows humor. You have all kinds of things you laugh at, but as soon as you tell somebody, the joke falls flat because they don't know the context of it.
The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories
If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.
There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.
The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.
When you're hanging out with your friends, you reference books and movies, and you don't always know if your friends know what you're referencing. But you throw it out there, and if it connects, it makes people laugh.
Whatever happens on tour... stays on tour!
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?
People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.
With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.
My brothers and sister and me grew up making fun of each other, the way we'd speak or move. When we get together, everyone's funny, quick, loud, and speaks on top of each other. It was like a great comedy school; nothing is precious.
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.
When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.
I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes.
When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.
Our fans often tell us that they see themselves in us. The relationship between the guys in Broken Lizard rings a bell with them, because they have their own little friend groups, with their own complex dynamics, and their own private jokes.
The audience loves when the comedian talks to them. You're creating inside jokes, which creates a community.
You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.
