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'SNL' came out in the '70s. It's a different zeitgeist. It's hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to do a black-and-white noir film now. The culture's different.

~Richard Belzer

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My grandmother was very funny. It skipped a generation.

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I was thrown out of every school I ever went to.

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In 1985, I was the host of a talk show, 'Hot Properties on Lifetime.' Hulk Hogan was on the show. He put me in a headlock and rendered me unconscious and let me fall to the ground. I split my head open and got nine stitches - and this was on live TV.

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Everything is a conspiracy. People kind of demonize the word. But a conspiracy is when two people get together and do something. So, if more than one person does something, it's a conspiracy. The revolution was a conspiracy, Iran Contra, Watergate.

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I'm a huge Obama supporter.

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Cancer is a cosmic slap in the face. You either get discouraged or ennobled by it.

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To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.

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As a result of being on 'SVU' and 'Homicide' all these years, there's a lot of people who don't know I used to do stand-up. When they see me onstage, it's a surprise, and it's revelatory. I'm happy because I can do my old material, so everybody wins.

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There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: August 4th, 1944

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