I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
DICK CAVETTI’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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