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.
ALAN KINGThere’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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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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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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