If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
ALAN KINGA summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
More Alan King Quotes
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I was a high school throw-out.
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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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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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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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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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