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My mother was extremely witty and caustic, and my father knew more jokes than anyone I've ever known.

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When vaudeville died, television was the box they put it in.

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MASH] was going to have to be a whole lot more than funny. Funny was easy. How not to trivialize human suffering by trying to be comic about it, that was the challenge.

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This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. At this still hour the self-collected soul Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there Of high descent, and more than mortal rank; An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Larry Gelbart

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Born: February 25, 1928
Died: September 11, 2009 (aged 81)
Known for:
  1. M*A*S*H (1972 – 1983)
  2. Tootsie (1982)
  3. Oh, God! (1977)
  4. The Wrong Box (1966)
  5. Movie Movie (1978)

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