I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
ALAN KINGComedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
More Alan King Quotes
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, ‘It’s a little cloudy.’ I took the tube from her and said, ‘Let me run it through again,’ and drank it. The nurse fainted.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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