Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
ALAN KINGThere’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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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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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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As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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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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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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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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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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