Subject: Places (Page 23)

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States; ask any Indian.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

There's always something fishy about the French.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower. – America

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

He (Robert Benchley) and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

The boomarang is Australia’s chief export (and then import.)

(1973 – ) American comedian

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts; our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician

I love Mexico because it’s a giant dollar store.

(1965 – ) American comedian

Canada? I don't even know what street it's on.

(1899 – 1947) American gangster

When you get a mammogram there, it comes with a two-drink minimum.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

America: A nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but can think of nothing to do when it gets there.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

(1923 – 1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist & playwright

Some men are all right in their place… if they only knew the right places!

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

They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country, but if you ask a native American, that number is more like 300 million.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

People come to this country from all over the world to pursue their dreams of driving a taxi or selling hot dogs or working in a sweatshop.

(1965 – 2010) American stand-up comedian & television personality

I was so poor… in my neighborhood, the rainbow was in black and white!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

(1563 – 1608) Italian Catholic priest

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

The District of Columbia is a territory hounded on all sides by the United States of America.

(1909 – 1944) satiric author

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

Hollywood is where they write the alibis before they write the story.

(1908 – 1942) American actress