"I did the first HBO special ever in……" — Robert Klein
"I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees."
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20 Quotes by Robert Klein
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According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the…
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But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good…
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In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream…
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My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family
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In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely…
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And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
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I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the…
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[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It…
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I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it…
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What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves…
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When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.
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I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.
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