American - Comedian | August 30, 1948 -
What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'
Lewis Black
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One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.
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The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.
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Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.
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If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'
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Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
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Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.
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My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.
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Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.
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I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.
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The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.
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Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.
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