I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie Meet Me in St. Louis, office parties and cookies. – Mo Rocca
I think that Obama is very cool. And I think hes clever, and I think he can be witty. But I dont think hes funny in either the way that Reagan was funny – or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way. – Mo Rocca
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something. – Mo Rocca
The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you dont think its funny, but youre convinced that other people will think it is, well they wont. – Mo Rocca
History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays