There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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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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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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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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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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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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