There was a stand-up comic in LA who used to say, "Comedy is dead. What you're laughing at is ridicule."Ridicule is a lot easier than comedy - and it takes a lot less talent.

I remember a photograph on the cover of a book. A photograph of a road. A very long, very straight road, the kind that you find in the heartland of America.

A grogger isn't the feeling in your head the day after a successful Purim.

A grogger (or gregger, or gragger) is Yiddish for a rattle of the type favored by soccer supporters.

When Sir Donald Wolfit, the last of the English actor/managers, was lying on his deathbed, one of his young actors said to him: “Sir Donald, after a life so filled with success and fame, dying must be hard…”