"I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up."   ~ Steve Cauthen

I've been told I'm too negative for improv. I'll say yes to that. ~ Emery Lamb

"But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed."    ~ Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Understatement is the best! I can't get enough of it! Where would we be without it? With gigantic noggins full of gas orbiting the swirling storms of shame, that's where!  ~ Emery Lamb

"...O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."   ~ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure  

I used to work for a tech college and set up workshops for our students on a variety of topics. I set up the speaker for the first workshop and went in for minor outpatient surgery earlier in the week. There were complications and I wound up in the hospital for the...

"Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, It's okay, I'm from New Jersey. I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a...

In 1976, I associated the Spirit of 76 with an orange globe that had blue numbers outlined in white - you know, like the Marshall Islands flag. #Bicentennial #1776   ~ Emery Lamb

"A class system is something you use to discriminate against someone who looks like you."   ~ Reginald D. Hunter

While my Dad cracked a lot of jokes and was the life of the party, my Mom was also humorous, but in a more understated and unintentional way. One time she called Pizza Hut because she was upset that the pizza she had ordered was over an hour late. "Hey lady, I'm sorry...