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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Dick Cavett

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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Brilliant Comedy Foot Myself Pain Time
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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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
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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Comedy Need Resent Writing Yourself
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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Chocolate Hands Ideas Myself Practice Shock Worst
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Life Live Myself
The 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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Brain Joke Mystery Process Result Study Subject
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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Body Comedy Comic Myself
I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Business Myself
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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Comic Myself See Show Stand
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Form Law Online Weapon Yourself
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
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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Better Depression Function Patience Sadness Suicide
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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Achievement Dreams Myself Night Someday

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