Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
ALAN KINGMy 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.
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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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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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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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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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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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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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