When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Steven WrightRead
Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.
Interpretation
This quote humorously highlights the idea that some people lack depth or sophistication, comparing it to the simple existence of bacteria.
In this witty statement, Steven Wright uses a play on words to critique societal norms. By suggesting that bacteria represent the only 'culture' some people have, he cleverly contrasts biological culture with the more abstract concept of cultural sophistication, pointing out that there are individuals who may not engage in the richer aspects of life, such as art, knowledge, or social awareness.
In practice
In a comedy show discussing social issues.
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I've forgotten this before.
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.
I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.
I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'
After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.
Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.
Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!
You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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