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" Imitation is the sincerest form of television. "
Fred Allen
Form
Sincerest
Imitation
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History
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" All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. "
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" An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. "
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" If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. "
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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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God
" 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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Person
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" During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. "
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Today
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" California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. "
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" A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. "
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" A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. "
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Who
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" An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. "
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Actor
Success
Small
" I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. "
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Family
Know
" Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. "
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Puns
Good
Hanging
" Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. "
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Technology
Television
Well Done
" A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. "
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Group
Appointed
Committee
" What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. "
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Your
Mind
Allow
" I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is. "
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Three
Trouble
" The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. "
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People
Funny
" I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. "
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People
Like
Long
" The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. "
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Down
Funny
Him
" I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. "
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Full
Front
Bottle
" Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. "
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Will
Someone
Talent
" Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. "
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Never
Year
Creation
" The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. "
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Exposed
Advertising
Conference
" I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. "
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Why
Understand
Person
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Committee
Done
Group
" Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. "
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Mistake
Stars
Place
" Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. "
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Strange
Life
Shoulders
" 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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Day
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Fruit
Heart
Place