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.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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 think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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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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