My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
ALAN KINGMy mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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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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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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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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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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The other day my house caught fire.
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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 had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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Then, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
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