Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.

When they laugh at one of my jokes... it just gets me right here. [Places his hand on his heart]

Bob Crosby: That's like keeping the smog and throwing away Los Angeles.

When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it [1]

Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis legerit, hic sapiet. Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet ista somnia missa sibi.

I read Hemingway's posthumous Paris memoirs, rumoured to have been written by his wife (`Out of the question,' Toni assured me, `they're so badly written they …

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