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Modesty is not one of my virtues.

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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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Ability Behave Fun Make Society Watch
We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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Distort Fun House Mirror Reflection Set Standard Style
My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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Ate Clean Good House Kept Mother
For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Always Birthday Joke Me Such Time
Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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Difficult Face Funny Go Let Offend Worry
If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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Alive Current Funny Keep Yourself
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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Always Art Even Humour Somebody Want Weapon
My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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Bed Eat Favorite Out Saturday Spend Sport Television Watch Way
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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Being Bird Come Early Gonna Mind Sixty-five Special Tell
One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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Country Dinner Life One Restaurant Thing Whole
Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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Better Salami Sex Slice Thickly
I’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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Bad Good Joy Over Place Review Scream Unhappy
The other day my house caught fire.
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Caught Day Fire House Other
My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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Ability Audience Comedy Identity never Say Son Story Tell
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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Funny Holocaust Joke Make Occur People Way
As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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Better Father Parent
My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags.
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Country Cutter Dreamer Father Handbag Hero Smart Tough
It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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Allow Being Comeback Easy Father
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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Confidence First Freedom Gave Lot People Program Sullivan Television
A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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Eat Every Holiday Jewish Kill Summer Try Won
When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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Done First Jewish Act Person Saw Told
My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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Father Help Leave Not True
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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Ability Absorb Book Else Exactly Make Someone Stage Story Word
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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Back Ball Been Fifty Laugh Listen Love People Theatre Villian Year
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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Ball Everything Matzoh Mother Sank
But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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Fun heavy Love More Movie Much
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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Bigotry Father First Oppression Read Talk Think Time

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