Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
ALAN KINGEverything 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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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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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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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
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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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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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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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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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