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.
ALAN KINGLet’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
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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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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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