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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.
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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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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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