Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

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I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

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I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.

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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

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I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

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