My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
ALAN KINGIf you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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