Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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beautiful mama with the long red hair.
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The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.
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I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
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