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
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The Playboy calendar this year has some tip-top models. Any more top and they'd tip.
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Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
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If you can laugh together, you can work together.
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Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.
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Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
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Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
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They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.
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Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems.
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I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.
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A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.
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I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a device created by grammar schools to communicate family secrets to 32 other families before 9:15 am in the morning.
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Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.
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These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.
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It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.