I Like To Put A Stake In

...the British Press... [claimed That Tony] Blair Was Simply Bush's Poodle - A Favorite Phrase, Bewilderingly Popular, Although It Made No Sense - And That He Was Ignoring The Will Of The British People. Considering The Hacks Had Spent Blair's First Six Years In Office Condemning Him For Relying On Focus Groups And Opinion Polls For His Policies - In Other Words, Paying Attention To Nothing But The Will Of The People, Or At Least Their Whims - That Seemed A Little Rich To Me, But As I Said, Logical Consistency Has Never Figured Highly In The British Media's Scale Of Values.

I'm Not Offended. Lenny Bruce Taught Me That Everything's Funny. You Can Make Everything Funny. I Don't Think That Assassinations Are Funny, I Don't Think You Can Make Fun Of Isis, But Almost Everything Is Funny. And If We Can't Laugh At Ourselves, Who Can We Laugh At? So I Don't Mind Ethnic Humor. I Like Ethnic Humor. I Like Dialect Jokes. Laughter Is A Very Subjective Thing. If It's Funny To You It's Funny. And A Lot Of Things Are Funny To Me.

Those Who Have Succeeded At Anything And Don't Mention Luck Are Kidding Themselves.

I Never Learned Anything While I Was Talking.

The First Rule Of My Speaking Is: Listen!