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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.

Dick Cavett

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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Comic Myself See Show Stand
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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Appearance Count Death Show Talk Yourself
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
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.
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Exercise Friendship Lost Maintenance Myself
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Death Myself Tolerance
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Edge Guest Ice Myself
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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Head Inflection Trick Word Writing Yourself
I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
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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Depression Ghost Misery Rare
It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
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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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Form Law Online Weapon Yourself
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Comic Court Early Known Rank Rough Survive

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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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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