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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
September 20, 2008
Dude probably invented hip-hop as we knew it. The man was one of the few athletes (perhaps the only?) that was also a natural born poet. I wrote a paper about him in college once.
Posted by: En Ming Hee at September 20, 2008 09:50 PMWho but 'THE GREATEST' would have the wisdom to say it, to mean what he said and do what he believed!
Posted by: Rupa Shah at September 20, 2008 10:02 PMEcce Homo!
I think I'll watch 'When We Were Kings' tonight.
Cheers!
"natural born poet."
I've read somewhere he wrote the shortest poem in existence--
Me? Wheeee!
Posted by: Donald Johnson at September 21, 2008 02:50 PMSo many great Ali anecdotes...
my favorite, though, is the one told by Norman Mailer in which – and I'm paraphrasing of course – Ali came up to Mailer and his then young wife at some function, charmed Mailer's pants off, so to speak, and when Mailer then left to use the washroom, Ali immediately asked his wife "What you doin' with that old man?"
Posted by: Tony C. at September 21, 2008 07:32 PMNot just the greatest - the double greatest! Sadly, I can't find that bit on YouTube.
Posted by: Krinn DNZ at September 22, 2008 11:01 AMKrinn DNZ : Below is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKq4_f3WzM
Posted by: Rupa Shah at September 22, 2008 01:59 PM
