A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
ALAN KINGIf you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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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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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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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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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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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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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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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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