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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

Alan King

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Alan King
Age: 76 †
Born: 1927
Born: December 26
Died: 2004
Died: May 9
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'
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Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
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I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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I was a high school throw-out.
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I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
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I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!
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I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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