When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
ALAN KINGI always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
More Alan King Quotes
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I made it, Ma – Carnegie Hall. And I didn’t have to practice.
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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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The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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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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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
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My son says I never tell stories about anyone who’s living.
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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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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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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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