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"Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I."
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Source: Jerry Lewis, the Essence of Comedy by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. August 21, 2017.
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