Quote #75

It's not like I've got these lines in a trunk that are waiting to come out in the next show. But when I'm writing a song that references body organs, you can bet genitalia will be at the top of my list.

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  1. The iron test is: Do you laugh? If you laugh, you know they're gonna laugh.
  2. Funny depends on coincidental circumstances.
  3. You could never give your mother as much as she gave you.
  4. Risk means guessing at the outcome, but never second-guessing.
  5. Good comedy is never frivolous. It's based on human experience, on human adventure, on human feelings. So it has to be profound.
  6. Why should I indulge myself and do a David Lean-ish kind of film? I could do my little Jewish Brief Encounter and disguise it - shorten the…
  7. Wit is sharper than the sharpest dagger.
  8. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

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