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...life." He tells the audience about flying into Atlanta in 1971, dressed in his Army uniform: "I was walking through the airport. This guy comes up and calls me a warmonger and a murderer. He called me that!" Another pause. "So I killed him." The audience explodes with laughter...
...taking part in a televised debate before the legislative elections. As defeated president Valery Giscard d'Estaing's confident "political hitman," Ponia is not popular. When he affirmed, "Giscard is now France's only hope; the Socialist project is doomed to failure," his discourse was punctuated by loud laughter and catcalls from the audience; debate moderator Jean-Marie Cavada asked for silence. Ponia struggled on, but Cavada interrupted with more election results to announce. "I have the figures from former justice minister Alain Peyrfitte's district," Cavada said. The T.V. studio became silent in anticipation of learning the fate...
...what would happen if the world condemned Israel. "Well, my friends," he said, "what can we do? We are an ancient people, we are used to it. We survived, we shall survive." And to the question of how Israel would react if Libya got the bomb, Begin replied, amid laughter, "Let us deal first with that meshuggener [Yiddish for lunatic], Saddam Hussein. With the other meshuggener [Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi], another time...
...longshoreman. His conclusion: "In surgery, the heart seemed no more mysterious than a clock. But later, when I saw the man's family in the waiting room, I remembered that a collection of those little machines-liver, heart, brain and the rest-work together and somehow produce laughter and love. To me, that's the greatest mystery...
...doesn't hurt to make people laugh," says Albert Brooks of Kaufman. "There should be laughter. Otherwise it's some other art form." If Kaufman functions as a one-man Weather Underground, Brooks is a more accessible, ultimately more subversive radical professor of post-funny comedy. Says Brooks, who was born Albert Einstein, son of the dialect comedian Parkyakarkus: "Life is so bizarre anyway, the slightest twist can make it really funny." Brooks' twist is so slight, so deft, that many may not get the joke. In 1975 he and Harry Shearer wrote and produced A Star...