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Steve Allen
American
Entertainer
Born:
Dec 26
,
1921
Died:
Oct 30
,
2000
Comedy
Experience
Funny
Humor
Matter
People
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Bernard Meltzer
Earl Nightingale
John Madden
Jonathan Van Ness
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Oprah Winfrey
RuPaul
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen
Government
Politicians
Other
Ours
Out
Mafia
Crooked
Compromised
Checks
Checks And Balances
Make
Balances
Improve
Officials
Bank
Businessmen
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
Steve Allen
Patriotism
Totalitarianism
Institutionalized
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Steve Allen
Humor
Bad
Some
Over
Spots
Get
Social
Us
Helps
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
Steve Allen
Mind
Lost
Mental
Bets
Make
How
Just
Heavy
Gambler
Used
Now
Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
Steve Allen
Physics
Dark
Energy
Mystery
Perhaps
Biggest
Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
Steve Allen
Me
Dog
Smoking
Unless
Asthma
Would
Would-Be
Seem
More
Bother
Most
Around
Dogs
Any
Thing
If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
Steve Allen
War
God
Must
Phrase
Him
Disgust
Holy
Pretend you're a southern sheriff. Or Mae West. Or Donald Duck. Buy a western hat and walk around the house like a cowboy. The point of all this, of course, is to draw yourself out of your accustomed groove.
Steve Allen
Buy
You
Yourself
Walk
Draw
Out
Pretend
Hat
Point
Like
House
Course
Around
Duck
Sheriff
West
Western
Cowboy
Southern
Donald
Donald Duck
Accustomed
Groove
Your
Do I ever get questions that are rude or impertinent? Yes, but I love to use them. The audience immediately perceives the emotional awkwardness of the situation.
Steve Allen
Love
Rude
Situation
Immediately
Emotional
Impertinent
Audience
Questions
Yes
Get
Them
Use
Ever
Awkwardness
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Steve Allen
Insist
Society
Our
Presidents
Would
Rational
Cheerleaders
Want
Teachers
Actual
In those of us who have the mysterious ability to amuse others, it is usually the case that even before we were aware of our own abilities, we had become practiced at laughing more than other children in our social circle.
Steve Allen
Circle
Become
Before
Own
Other
Others
Our
Those
Laughing
Ability
Case
More
Mysterious
Had
Practiced
Were
Than
Children
Social
Us
Who
Even
Aware
Amuse
It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life than other people do.
Steve Allen
Life
Strange
People
Real Life
Whatever
Other
Addition
Seems
More
Performance
Comedians
Comic
Real
Than
Often
Experiences
Formal
Reasons
Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge or physical defense were not among the sensible options.
Steve Allen
Learning
Experience
Comedy
Challenge
Joke
Defense
Neighborhood
Physical
Writers
Shared
Comedians
Protect
Were
Bullies
Options
Childhood
Sensible
Themselves
Many
Among
I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage fright and felt quite ill, in fact, by the time I had to give my little talk to students in another class across the hall.
Steve Allen
Time
Class
Speak
First
Stage
Give
Fact
Students
Had
Talk
Terrible
Another
Hall
Felt
First Time
Audience
Fright
Grade
Front
Quite
Sixth
In Fact
Stage Fright
Little
Required
Across
Ill
By The Time
Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.
Steve Allen
Best
Experience
Reality
Humor
Frequently
Tragic
Human
Human Experience
Much
Found
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