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The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool thing.

~Richard Belzer

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As I got older, I was able to articulate why I was rebelling against authority - because their motives were much more forceful and hurtful than I had ever thought.

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I used to think of it as a joke that all paranoids were right. That was a joke in the '60s, but now I'm convinced that people should be paranoid reflexively - and then pare it down from there if there's any indication that they're wrong.

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I think we make fun of the things that scare us the most.

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When I was a kid in the '50s, I was very enamored of beatniks and... a kind of dark sensibility.

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I secretly nurtured the idea of being in show business but was always terrified of it. I had every fear you could possibly imagine associated with performing.

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Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.

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Arguably, the first five years of 'Saturday Night Live' were some of the most radical things ever seen on television. When NBC said, 'Okay, you can do a show from 11:30 to 1 on Saturday night,' they didn't think anyone would watch. It was like giving a piece of the candy store to the kids.

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I've been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it's a compliment.

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I have to say Tim Thomerson is one of the funniest people I've ever met.

~Richard Belzer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: August 4th, 1944

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