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.
DICK CAVETTTherapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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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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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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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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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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