Subject: Places (Page 41)

When I started here I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.

(1926 – 2017) American stand-up comedian & actor

It was once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

(1901 – 1970) American journalist & author

I don't want to say he's in bed with this administration, but they did find Dick Cheney's Rolex lodged in his colon.

(1961 – ) comedian, writer, radio & television personality & blogger

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

Any closet is a walk-in closet if you try hard enough.

comedian

Environmentalists say that every day an area the size of Wales is destroyed… why is it never Wales.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president

Every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

comedian, writer, actor & producer

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

What do you call an honest Iranian businessman? … Asif.

(1965 – ) British-Iranian comedian, actor & writer

A city where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

(1885 –1974) American cartoonist, humor writer & radio personality

The plain truth is, that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

You gotta live somewhere.

(1948 – ) American stand-up comedian, writer & actor

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everyone and still nobody likes him.

(1948 – 1990) comedian

I can’t listen to that much Wagner… I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

I moved to New York for my health; I’m paranoid, and New York was the only place where my fears were justified.

You always find something in the last place you look.

When I visit China I like to get Chinese food… ff course, over there they just call it food.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

I’m thrilled that the American people stopped him from running this time; as a citizen, I’m happy about that, but as a comic, I weep.

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright