I knew nothing about professional comedians when I became a comedian. I was a rabbi. So I had no professional comedians to learn from.
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The Republican Party stinks because all of the Republicans have accomplished nothing, and they talk about all of these issues and do nothing about it for a whole lifetime.
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Predictions are preposterous.
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If you wanted to hear politics, you'd go to Henry Kissinger; you wouldn't go to hear Jackie Mason. The reason I speak about politics is because I know I can get a laugh out of it.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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I didn't emphasize my Jewishness because I wanted to. I just happen to have been raised in a family where everybody happened to talk like this, so why would I talk like somebody else?
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