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A Mostly Defensible List of What I Find Amusing
Influences and obsessions, too long and entirely incomplete: George Carlin, Kurt Vonnegut, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Muppets, Richard Pryor, John Candy, David Sedaris, Don Rickles, Danny McBride, John Mulaney, Marc Maron, Pee-Wee, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Harold Ramis, The Original Kings of Comedy, Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers, Dave Attell, Patton…
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“He was told that the streets were paved with gold.”
From comedian Shelley Berman, as quoted by Lorne Michaels: “Before my grandfather came to America, he was told that the streets were paved with gold. And when he got to America he found out three things. One, that the streets were not paved with gold. Two, that the streets were not paved. Three, that he was…