Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
DICK CAVETTI have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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