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I never dreamed i would receive the mark twain prize for american humor, mostly because my style is so typically austrian.
-Tina Fey
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I Never Dreamed I Would Receive The

Tina Fey
I never dreamed i would receive the mark twain prize for american humor, mostly because my style is so typically austrian.
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As a nobel prize winner i cannot but regret that the award was never given to mark twain, nor to henry james, speaking only of my own countrymen. greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. i would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer isak dinesen.
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Jon stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of mark twain, because jon stewart understands what mark twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.
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The interesting scope of mark twain's development as a human being is that he grew. he saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. this is a central fact in the mark twain legacy. he became an american spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.
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Bob hope, like mark twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely american, and like twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
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If you play mark twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing mark twain. that was the biggest challenge, in some ways. writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.
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In my early teens, i read every bound volume of the magazine punch. every writer of any distinction in the english language, and i mean including america and england, at some time wrote for punch. jerome k. jerome, who wrote three men in a boat, i loved. i was very impressed when i read a piece by mark twain in punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, jerome k. jerome and mark twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "the human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. they were almost talking with the same voice.
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