We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
ALAN KINGIf you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
More Alan King Quotes
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The other day my house caught fire.
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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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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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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