I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
DICK CAVETTDepression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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 haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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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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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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