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.
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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Depression – 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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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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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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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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