If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KINGA summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
More Alan King Quotes
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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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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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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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The other day my house caught fire.
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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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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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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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Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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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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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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My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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