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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
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My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.
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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
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