Modesty is not one of my virtues.
ALAN KING
For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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It’s more fun with someone who really likes it. I can’t imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.
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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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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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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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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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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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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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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.
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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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