Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
DICK CAVETTI haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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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