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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

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 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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Article Channel Choice Kind Old Possible
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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Appearance Count Death Show Talk Yourself
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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Blessing Head Movie Myself Perfection Teacher
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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Afraid Mindset Myself People Police Sex Violence
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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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Amount Class Union
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
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself

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