I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
DICK CAVETTCommercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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