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Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright.

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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

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Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail.

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If you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living.

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