The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick. by Joey Bishop

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

Joey Bishop

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The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.

ceramics psycho study

There are many things that I find attractive about a woman. Foremost to me, of course, would be a sense of humor-but that doesn't come in a bottle.

sense-of-humor bottles would-be

A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!

car giving-up wife

One time we were having dinner and some guy came by and took a potato off of Frank Sinatra's plate. And Frank said, “Hey pal, are you hungry?” The guy says, “yeah.” Frank said, “Sit down.” And he gave him his dinner. I thought for sure there was gonna be trouble from the guys surrounding Frank, but Frank says, “Jeez, relax, the man's hungry.”

relax guy men

A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.

cop red light

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

gas-stations money thinking

I don't consider success doing a show for 30 years; I'm sorry. To me, you're successful when you graduate from something. I did a series, I did a talk show, I did movies, I replaced Mickey Rooney [on Broadway] in "Sugar Babies." You understand?

sorry success baby

The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.

home morning night

I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!

bus chicago said

You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

sunset mother names

You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.

cutting hair thinking

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

doctor up touched wonderful

One guy wrote that I worked with The Rat Pack Pack occasionally, occasionally ! Another talks about how I kissed Frank’s a —. That hurt me a little bit. I know I sound bitter, but I have a right to.

He would always stand up for Frank, he was just frustrated that he was seen as an extra component of The Rat Pack Pack. Whenever people talked about The Rat Pack Pack, The Rat Pack was always Frank, Martin Mills/Getty Images and Sammy Davis Jr.. He was somehow forgotten.