Subject: Places (Page 29)

In Russia we only had two TV channels: Channel One was propaganda, Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: “Turn back at once to Channel One.”

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

Tell me where you want to go. If they have a team, I'll schedule them.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

First of all, I don't see America having problems.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Beverly Hills is so exclusive… their fire department won’t make house calls.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American 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

We know Jesus can’t have been English; he is always wearing sandals, but never with socks.

(1958 – 2006) English radio performer, stand-up comic & writer

The best research [for playing a drunk] is being a British actor for 20 years.

(1933 – ) English actor

Irish people are Italians who can’t dress, Jamaicans who can’t dance.

(1960 – ) Irish singer-songwriter, musician, philanthropist & publicity seeker

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot… but I always found them.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I like American women; they do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing… like showering.

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

(1934 – ) comedian

You know how you're going to die, you just don't know when.

comedian

If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

Switzerland is simply a large humpy, solid rock, with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Ellen Page says that the sexism in Hollywood is constant; you might remember her from her movie Juno, where she played a mouthy chick with no tits.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian

I love New York – it's the only place where if you look at anyone long enough, they'll eventually spit.

(1964 – ) Canadian stand-up comedian, actress & television host

Every frozen yogurt store feels like you're hanging out inside a Japanese girl's backpack.

American comedian

New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist