You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
ALAN KINGFor me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
More Alan King Quotes
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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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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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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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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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