P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourkeis an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011 O'Rourke has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.
Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
Never fight an inanimate object.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.
As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.