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
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.
eggs may way
It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.
laughing competition sense-of-humor
Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.
seven-years wife awful
It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.
figures checks bounce
Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?
american-entertainer list morning people richest
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.
family fathers-day mother
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
american-entertainer
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
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.