There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
DICK CAVETTCommercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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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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