I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
DICK CAVETTThe brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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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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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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