Subject: Insults (Page 25)

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

(1925 – 1990) American entertainer

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

Whatever it was that this actress never had, she still hasn't got it.

(1905 – 1981) journalist, author & film critic

Dancing with her was like moving a piano.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer

She’s so hairy – when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

His favorite exercise is climbing tall people.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

A monstrous orchid.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

The baby is fine; the only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Compared to the Clintons, Reagan is living proof that a Republican with half a brain is better than a Democrat with two.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

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

Come again when you can't stay so long.

(1860 – 1942) German-English painter

He is able to turn an unplotted, unworkable manuscript into an unplotted and unworkable manuscript with a lot of sex.


God, whom you doubtless remember as that quaint old subordinate of General Douglas MacArthur…

(1904 – 1979) Jewish-American humorist, author & screenwriter

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry – for the clothes.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Calling Kathy Lee 'entertainment' is like falling off the roof and calling it transportation.

American actor & stand-up comedian

He puts the 'goober' in 'gubernatorial.’

(1943 – ) U.S. agriculture commissioner, columnist, activist & author

Elizabeth Taylor looks like two small boys fighting underneath a thick blanket.

Richard Blackwell (1922 – 2008) fashion critic, journalist, & designer

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

If he were any dumber, he’d be a tree.

(1909 – 1998) U.S. senator (Arizona)