My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
ALAN KINGThere’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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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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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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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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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I’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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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 think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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