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All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Fred Allen

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

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I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

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