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.
From Dick Cavett
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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.
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
Great humorists are great insulters.
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.
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