It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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Commercials 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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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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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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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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 all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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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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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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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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