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Theodore Bikel

"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."

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"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."

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"I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week."

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"The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead."

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