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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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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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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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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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.
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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