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Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

Gene Weingarten

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Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
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I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.
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I think politics is everything.
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I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don't think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
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I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don't think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
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I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.
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Being Jewish is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.
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Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
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Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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I always thought there was some cleverness to the joke diet in which you could eat as much as you want and as often as you want, but everything must be consumed naked in front of a full-length mirror. That would deter me!
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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