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"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
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"I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction."
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"I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running."
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"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."
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"But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake."
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"The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry."
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"Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart."
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"My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens."
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"I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this."
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"You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians."
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"I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians."
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"The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us."
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"As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy."
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"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian."
Education
"So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up."
People
"I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California."
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"I will always love to perform standup comedy."
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"My whole act is confession."
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"The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance."
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"I was an actor before becoming a comedian."
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"I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic."
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