While youre improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, were having fun. – Shelley Berman
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. – Shelley Berman
The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us. – Shelley Berman
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. – Shelley Berman
The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum