I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
DICK CAVETTComedians 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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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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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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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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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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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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