I have a long list of things that make me mad.
DICK CAVETTThere is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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