Subject: Appearance (Page 17)

I was not a particularly small child; I was the one who always got picked to play Bethlehem in the school nativity.

(1957 – ) British stand-up comedian

I got the classic Italian male body; I got the ass of a 270-pound man and the chest of a small Romanian gymnast.

(1953 – ) American comedian & writer

You always know when he's ready for sex, ’cause naked, he looked like one of them butterball turkeys with the little pop-up timer.

Lisa Lampanelli (1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

I told my wife that there was a chance that radiation might hurt my reproductive organs, but she said in her opinion it’s a small price to pay.

(1925 – 2005) television host

I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I don’t suggest that her face has been lifted, but there’s a possibility that her body has been lowered.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist

I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body only 2” taller.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

(1944 – 1992) American author

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Figures Show It: Americans Putting On Those Pounds

You can never be too skinny or too rich.

(1915 – 1978) socialite

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane.

(1933 – 1967) English playwright

He has turned almost alarmingly blond – he's gone past platinum, he must be plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic

My girlfriend was so fat her clothes were made by Omar the tent maker.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset if you are poor or have not any sense.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

I keep trying to lose weight… but it keeps finding me.

My New Year’s resolution is to get in shape… I choose round.

(1975 – ) English comedian

I’m a character actor, which is a polite way of saying ‘ugly.’

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

She got her good looks from her father, he’s a plastic surgeon.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

It's easy to distract fat people; it's a piece of cake.

(1972 – ) English standup comedian, writer & actor