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“I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.”

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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,…

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I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

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Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.

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I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would…

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If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air…

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I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

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Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

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“People are leaving the church and going back to God.”

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Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. B'nai B'rith is goyish; Hadassah, Jewish. If you live in New…

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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to…

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“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”

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“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.”

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