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
calendar playboy top year
The Playboy calendar this year has some tip-top models. Any more top and they'd tip.
new-year fighting years
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.
morning years may
I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.
seven-years wife awful
It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.
grief mean years
All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it; but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.
eight years trying
Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.
years wildfires
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
years answers lasts
An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.
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The Playboy Calendar this year has some tiptop models. Any more top and they'd tip.
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Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
teamwork inspiration laughing
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
insecure people quick telling themselves willing younger
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.