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Mel Blanc

September 3, 2010 – 2:28 am
Posted in Actors, America, Broadcasters, Cartoonists, Comedians, WWII
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“That’s all folks”. –Mel Blanc

John Belushi

August 30, 2010 – 5:47 pm
Posted in Actors, America, Broadcasters, Comedians, Musicians
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“I suggest you go out and buy as many Blues albums as you can”. –John Belushi

“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

James Thurber

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

Jim Backus

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success”. –Jim Backus

Ernest Bramah

“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment”. –Ernest Bramah

Lucian

“Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid”. –Lucian

Hugh Kingsmill

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

Sam Kinison

“The Russians haven’t been to the moon. You know why? Because they’re space pussies… You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG, asshole!” –Sam Kinison

Stephen Leacock

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

Israel Zangwill

“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled”. –Israel Zangwill

Walter Matthau

“The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty”. –Walter Matthau

Nikolai Gogol

“They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know”. –Nikolai Gogol

Bob Hope

April 7, 2010 – 10:34 am
Posted in Actors, America, British Empire, Broadcasters, Comedians, Producers, WWII
Tagged A Bank, A Bank Is A Place, A Bank Is A Place That Will Lend, A Bank Is A Place That Will Lend You Money, A Bank Is A Place That Will Lend You Money If You Can Prove That You Don't Need It, A Place That Will Lend You Money, A Place That Will Lend You Money If You Can Prove That You Don't Need It, Actor, Actors, America, American, American Comedian, American Comedians, Americans, Bank, Banked, Banker, Bankers, Banking, Banks, Bob, Bob Hope, Bob Hope Classic, Bob Hope Quote, Bob Hope Quotes, Bob Hope Show, Britain, British, Broadcast, Broadcaster, Broadcasters, Broadcasting, Broadcasts, Broadway, Comedian, Comedians, Don't Need It, England, English, Englishman, Englishmen, Hope, Hope Quote, Hope Quotes, If You Can, If You Can Prove, If You Can Prove That You Don't Need It, Lend, Lended, Lending, Lends, Leslie, Leslie Townes Hope, Money, Monies, Need, Need It, Needed, Needing, Needs, Place, Places, Prove, Prove That You Don't Need It, Proved, Proven, Proves, Proving, Quote, Quotes, Second World War, The Bob Hope Classic, The Bob Hope Show, Townes, USO, USO Tours, Vaudeville, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, WWII, You Can, You Can Prove, You Don't Need It
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“A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don’t need it”. –Bob Hope

Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”. –Mark Twain

Max Beerbohm

“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him”. –Max Beerbohm

Ogden Nash

“Senator Smoot is an institute Not to be bribed with pelf; He guards our homes from erotic tomes By reading them all himself”. –Ogden Nash

Richard Pryor

March 29, 2010 – 3:26 pm
Posted in Actors, America, Authors, Comedians, Producers
Tagged Africa, African, Africans, Comedian, Comedians, Comedy, Damn, Damned, Damning, Damns, Find, Finding, Finds, Found, Franklin, God, God Damn, God Damned, Goddamn, Goddamned, I Didn't Find One God Damned Pryor, I Went Through Every Phone Book, I Went Through Every Phone Book In Africa, I Went Through Every Phone Book In Africa And I Didn't Find One God Damned Pryor, III, Lennox, One, One God Damned Pryor, Phone Book, Pryor, Pryor Quote, Pryor Quotes, Quote, Quotes, Richard, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III, Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor Quote, Richard Pryor Quotes, Stand-Up, Stand-Up Comedian, Stand-Up Comedians, Stand-Up Comedy, Thomas, Went, Went Through
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“I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn’t find one god damned Pryor!”

Steve Allen

“Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances”. –Steve Allen

Mitch Hedberg

March 26, 2010 – 12:35 am
Posted in Actors, America, Comedians
Tagged A Woman, Don't, Don't Have A Girlfriend, Girlfriend, Girlfriends, Have, Hedberg, Hedberg Quote, Hedberg Quotes, I Do Know A Woman, I Do Know A Woman Who'd Be Mad At Me For Saying That, I Don't Have A Girlfriend, I Don't Have A Girlfriend But I Do Know A Woman Who'd Be Mad At Me For Saying That, Knew, Know, Knowing, Knows, Mad, Madder, Maddest, Mitch, Mitch Hedberg, Mitch Hedberg Quote, Mitch Hedberg Quotes, Quote, Quotes, Said, Say, Saying, Saying That, Says, Woman, Women
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“I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that”. –Mitch Hedberg

Redd Foxx

March 24, 2010 – 11:42 am
Posted in Actors, America, Comedians, Producers
Tagged Die, Died, Dies, Dying, Dying Of Nothing, Elroy, Feel, Feel Stupid, Feel Stupid Someday, Feeling, Feels, Felt, Foxx, Going, Health, Health Nut, Health Nuts, Health Nuts Are Going To Feel Stupid Someday, Health Nuts Are Going To Feel Stupid Someday Lying In Hospitals Dying Of Nothing, Healthful, Healthier, Healthiest, Healthy, Hospital, Hospitals, John, John Elroy Sanford, John Sanford, Lay, Lie, Lying, Nothing, Nut, Nuts, Quote, Quotes, Redd, Redd Foxx, Redd Foxx Quote, Redd Foxx Quotes, Sanford, Someday, Stupid, Stupidity
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“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing”. –Redd Foxx

Henny Youngman

March 22, 2010 – 8:42 pm
Posted in Actors, British Empire, Comedians, Musicians, Performers
Tagged A Doctor, A Doctor Gave A Man Six Months To Live, Another, Another Six Months, Bill, Bills, Could Not, Couldn't, Couldn't Pay His Bill, Doctor, Doctors, Gave, Gave Him Another Six Months, Give, Henny, Henny Youngman, Henny Youngman Quote, Henny Youngman Quotes, Henry, Henry Youngman, Henry Youngman Quote, Henry Youngman Quotes, King of One-Liners, King of the One-Liner, Live, Lived, Lives, Living, Man, Men, Month, Months, Pay, Pay His Bill, Payed, Paying, Pays, Quote, Quotes, Six, Six Months, So He Gave Him Another Six Months, The Man Couldn't Pay His Bill, Youngman, Youngman Quote, Youngman Quotes
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“A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months”. –Henny Youngman

Red Skelton

March 19, 2010 – 6:00 pm
Posted in Actors, America, Comedians, Performers
Tagged Action, Actions, Can Not, Cannot, Care, Cares, Caring, Form, Formed, Forming, Forms, Happiness, Happy, Miserable, Misery, Our Principles, Our Principles Are The Springs Of Our Actions, Principle, Principles, Quote, Quotes, Red, Red Skelton, Red Skelton Quote, Red Skelton Quotes, Richard Bernard Skelton, Skelton, Skelton Quote, Skelton Quotes, Spring, Springs, Take, Taken, Takes, Taking, Therefore
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“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles”. –Red Skelton

Jack Paar

March 17, 2010 – 8:58 pm
Posted in Actors, America, Comedians, Performers
Tagged A, Bad, Gave, Give, God, God Gave Me a Mind, God's, Have, I, I Have Never Seen a Bad Television Program, Jack, Jack Paar, Mind, Minds, Never, Off, Paar, Program, Programs, Quote, Quotes, Refuse, Refused, Refuses, Refusing, Seen, Television, Televisions, Thing, Things, Turn, Turns, Wrist, Wrists
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“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off”. –Jack Paar

Peter Sellers

March 16, 2010 – 6:14 pm
Posted in Actors, British Empire, Comedians, Performers, WWII
Tagged Admit, Admit Defeat, Admits, Admitted, Admitting, Any, Comedian, Comedians, Comedy, Defeat, Defeated, Defeating, Face, Face Them, Faces, Form, Forms, Henry, Horrible, Label, Labels, Peter, Peter Sellers, Quote, Quotes, Real, Realities, Reality, Refuse, Refuse to Face Them, Refused, Refuses, Refusing, Richard, Richard Henry Sellers, Richard Sellers, Sellers, Some, Subject, Subjects, Them, Trap, Trapped, Unless, Unsuitable Unsuited
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“Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat”. –Peter Sellers

John Lennon

March 16, 2010 – 1:52 pm
Posted in Actors, Artists, Authors, British Empire, Comedians, Leaders, Musicians, Philosophers, Producers, The Beatles
Tagged About, About It, Are, Away, Beatles, Being, End, Ends, Express, Expressed, Expresses, Expressing, Expressing That, Insane, Insanity, It, John, John Lennon, John Ono Lennon, John Winston Lennon, John Winston Ono Lennon, Jon, Jon Lennon, Lennon, Liability, Liable, Maniac, Maniacal, Maniacal Ends, Maniacs, Ono, Put, Put Away, Quote, Quotes, Ran, Run, Running, Runs, That, The Beatles, Think, Though, We, We Are, Were, Winston
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“I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it”. –John Lennon

Lenny Bruce

March 13, 2010 – 9:01 pm
Posted in Activists, America, Authors, Comedians, Military, Philosophers, WWII
Tagged 20, 20 Years, Alfred, Around, Bruce, Catholic, Catholic School, Catholic School Children, Catholics, Chair, Chairs, Child, Children, Cross, Crosses, Electric, Electric Chair, Electric Chairs, Instead, Jesus, Kid, Kids, Kill, Killed, Lenny, Lenny Bruce, Lenny Schneider, Leonard, Leonard Alfred Schneider, Leonard Schneider, Little, Neck, Necks, Quote, Quotes, Schneider, School, School Children, Twenty, Twenty Years, Wear, Wearing, Year, Years
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“If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses”. –Lenny Bruce