Robert Orben
Robert Orben
Robert Orbenis best known as an American professional comedy writer, though he also worked as a speechwriter for Gerald R. Ford and as a magician. He has written multiple books on comedy, mostly collections of gags and "one-liners" originally written for his newsletter, Orben's Current Comedy, and he has also written books for magicians...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth4 March 1927
CountryUnited States of America
real moving people
Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
taxation might wonder
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
too-much needs drink
Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave - but there's no need to be in the passing lane.
years calendars playboy
The Playboy Calendar this year has some tiptop models. Any more top and they'd tip.
figures checks bounce
Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?
laughing competition sense-of-humor
Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.
communication views people
Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, 'There he goes again.' A sense of humor allows a president to back off a little from the tensions of the moment and take a calmer view of things.
memorable thinking people
Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.
age sense-of-humor jokes
It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.
president used deals
President Ford used humor a great deal.
religion what-if earth
What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
football hope baseball
Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.
family dirty listening
We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.
listening politics painting
Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.