I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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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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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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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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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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My lawyer said, “Shouldn’t be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?” I said, “Fire and theft.” The lawyer frowned. “Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.”
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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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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 get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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