You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
ALAN KINGI think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
More Alan King Quotes
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
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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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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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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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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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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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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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