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"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"
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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."
"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."
"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
"I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year."
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"Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time."
"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"
"Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third."
"That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody."
"They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately."
"Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive."
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