“If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters.”

—  Robert Orben

Susan Feeney (March 24, 1990) "It's no joke: politicians pay to get those laughs", The Dallas Morning News, p. 1C.

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American magician and writer 1928

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