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"If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television."
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"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."

"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."

"I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that."

"Bob had a dog buscuit stuck to his head. 'How does he always get food stuck to him?' I asked Morelli. 'I don't know,' Morelli said. 'It's a Bob mystery. I think stuff falls out of his mouth and he rolls in it. I'm not sure.'-Morelli And Stephanie."

"It's okay. I'm-'Fine? Joseph chimed in. 'Obviously not. You need to be checked out by a doctor. 'I am a doctor. I rolled my eyes at him, but that didn't deter him from his train of thought. 'Not that kind of doctor.'What is 'that kind of doctor' going to say when they see my shimmering pink blood, Joseph? I changed my voice to mimic one of a concerned doctor. 'I'm sorry ma'am, you appear to be suffering from a mild case of Pretty Pretty Princess syndrome. Have you ingested any magical woodland faeries recently?"

"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."
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"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."

"When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do."

"Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford."

"Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers."

"I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying."

"If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television."
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