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Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.

The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy.