Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
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I'm signing the letter that says, let's be quiet when he gets his award and just sit there. I think it's very sad that this man is being honored and the people he destroyed are never going to have a chance to be honored.Carl Reiner
I'm 83 years old. Rock music I understand. Rap music I'm just about to understand. But you guys I will never understand. What were you as kids
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner
There's some awfully good things done today and some awful terrible things done today,
Carl Reiner
I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Carl Reiner
I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
Carl Reiner
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