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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."

"Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing."

"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."

"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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