Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
ALAN KINGMilton 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.
More Alan King Quotes
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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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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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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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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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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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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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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I was a high school throw-out.
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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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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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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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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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