| | My favorite humorists and comics and comedians (basically due to their uniqueness - no one quite like them) |
| | Benny, Jack - his set-ups that let YOU do the thinking |
| | Brooks, Mel - his absurdity |
| | Bruce, Lenny - his brilliant satires and quest for truths |
| | Carlin, George - his finding humor in the words themselves |
| | Cosby, Bill - his finding humor in everyday home life |
| | Degeneras, Ellen - her use of surprise in everyday situations |
| | Kaufman, Andy - his absurdities and experiments |
| | Kovacs, Ernie - his imagination and creativity |
| | Leguizamo, John - all around talent with a biting social comment |
| | Martin, Steve - his absurdity within his "so normal" persona |
| | Murphy, Eddie - his brilliance in creating different looks at everyday things |
| | Newhart, Bob - his pauses |
| | Nichols, Mike, and May, Elaine - brilliant improvisations (both brilliant individually thereafter, too) |
| | Parr, Jack - can't even describe how he did it |
| | Pryor, Richard - I can't even describe what it is about this brilliant humorist |
| | Tomlin, Lily - her well-drawn character creations |
| | Williams, Robin - his manic creations |
| | Jonathan Winters - his manic creations (Robin Williams is called "his bastard son")My favorite entertainment (theatre and movies) |
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| | Some of my favorite plays: |
| | Rich and Famous - the only play where I actually slid out of my seat because of my continuous laughing. |
| | Man and Superman - by George Bernard Shaw - the words are so brilliantly funny and clever that I had a urge, every minute of so, to ask the actors to stop (hey, it was ONLY an urge, I did not do it) and let me think about the lines that they just had spoken. |
| | Two by Luigi Pirendello, "Six characters in search of an author" and "Right you are if you think you are", both plays are about perceptions and illusion |
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| | Some of my favorite musicals: |
| | The Fantasticks - saw this play in many places, many times |
| | My Fair Lady - based upon Shaw's Pygmalion |
| | No Strings - Richard Rodgers (by himself) |
| | Little Mary Sunshine - a little charm of frivolous wit |
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| | Some of my favorite movies: |
| | Casablanca and Citizen Kane - so what else is new about these two universal selections |
| | The Producers and Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein - all 3 movies are by Mel Brooks at his best |
| | The Beatles' 2nd movie "Help" |
| | The Aristocrats - takes a stupid and atrociously vulgar joke with the punchline already known in advance and telling it repeatedly (100 times by 100 separate comedians) and making this dumb concept into a hilarious and original movie |
| | Where's Papa? - with Ruth Gordon at her best |
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| | Music - My favorite songs: |
| | The first time ever I saw your face (which leads to my thoughts of Anja) |
| | Music - My favorite musicians: |
| | Simon and Garfunkel |
| | The Beatles |
| | The Mamas and the Papas |
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| | My favorite places: |
| | San Miguel de Allende |
| | Manhattan (just that part of New York City) |
| | Rio de Janeiro |
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| | My favorite foods: |
| | Chinese food |
| | French food |
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| | My favorite restaurant in this entire world: |
| | Lutece in Manhattan (NYC, for y'all that might not know) |
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| | My favorite people: |
| | Jimmy Carter |
| | Lawrence B. Hilford |
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| | My heroes (at any time in my life): |
| | Douglas MacArthur (1940s) |
| | Lenny Bruce (post- 1958) |
| | Larry Hilford (post-1971) |
| | Benjamin Franklin (because he did so many different things) |
| | Hugo Black, who said ""congress shall make no law ..." means exactly that "congress shall make NO law ..."" |
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| | My favorite speakers: |
| | Winston Churchill |
| | Mario Cuomo-Ted Kennedy-Jesse Jackson (Democratic convention 1980) |
| | Barbara Jordan (Watergate hearings) |
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| | My favorite athletes: |
| | Mohammed Ali a/k/a "the greatest" |
| | Bill Russell (Boston Celtics) |
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| | My favorite drugs of choice |
| | marijuana |
| | the old-time dentist laughing gas |
| | ice cream |
| | most other foods |
| | and then there is asperin |