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If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

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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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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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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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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

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It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

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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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Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

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I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

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If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

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It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

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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'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

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I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

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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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Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.

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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

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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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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

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I hate Danny Kaye movies.

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