Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
DICK CAVETTI 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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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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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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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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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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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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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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