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I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

~Bernie Mac

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I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

~Bill Irwin

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What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

~Buddy Hackett

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My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Automobile Bar Cleveland First First Job Gleason Job Making Overtime Plant Week

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Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

~Chuck Jones

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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

~Ed O'Neill

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I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

~Elvis Presley

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Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

~George Thorogood

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