You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that. - Abe Burrows
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
- Abe Burrows
Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom. - Abe Burrows
Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone. - Abe Burrows
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. - Abe Burrows
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if th… - Abe Burrows
The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if th…
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